plantations
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While it is normal to contrast the vast plantations of the South with the scrabbly small farms of New England, the patroons of New York were also vast landowners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The leaders of the Free Soil Party, which ultimately formed part of the Republican Party, opposed the allocation of land conquered from Mexico to giant plantations worked by chattel slaves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
A portrait of the actor David Harewood hangs at the family's stately home, Harewood House in northern England, after it was discovered that his ancestors had worked on Lascelles family sugar plantations in Barbados.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
They accumulated significant wealth from slavery through the ownership of plantations in the West Indies and South America.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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