Rhode Island drops 'plantation' from state documents
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has issued an executive order stripping the word"plantation" — a loaded term associated with slavery — from official state documents and symbols.
One of America's original 13 colonies, Rhode Island traces its roots to Providence Plantations, a settlement established by Roger Williams. In recent examples of the word's use as a noun, Merriam-Webster on Tuesday cited stories about Nancy Green, a woman who was born into slavery and later went on to be the face of Aunt Jemima syrup, and the movie"Gone With the Wind," set on a Georgia plantation before and during the Civil War.
In 2010, the state's voters soundly rejected Question 1, which asked if the official name,"State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," should be changed to simply"Rhode Island."
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