- plural of plantation.
plantations
Example Sentences
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Unlike in Mexico, where vast plantations dominate the landscape, nobody grows agave commercially in India - at least not yet.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
After Britain abolished slavery in 1833, those formerly enslaved continued to work the plantations as contract employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Brazil’s coffee-growing monoculture left much of the country dependent on imported food, particularly white flour from the slave-worked mills of Richmond, which in turn encouraged the development of new capital-intensive wheat plantations in Virginia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
