plantations

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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

At first they made money from illegal logging and plantations, later benefitting from a speculative property boom in the cities fuelled by Chinese investors.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Cases under investigation include pastures declared on archaeological sites, olive trees in a military airport and banana plantations on Mount Olympus.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

They were afraid of the living death that awaited them in the rice fields, on the great cotton plantations, the sugar plantations, in the deep South—and so ran away.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry