plantation
Example Sentences
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The domestic slave trade exploded as the Upper South sold people to cotton and sugar plantations, financed by London banks.
With the 1793 invention of the cotton gin—which separated cotton fibers from its seeds with a previously undreamed-of efficiency—America’s plantation economy expanded exponentially and so did its use of slave labor.
Before the Civil War, the county was home to cotton plantation owners where wealthy landowners got rich off the labor of enslaved people.
From Seattle Times
State forest inventory records reveal thousands of acres of plantation forests on South Puget Sound state trust lands currently available for harvest.
From Seattle Times
It was an easy source of calories for plantation labor.
From New York Times
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