Plantation - Wikipedia Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on
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The Plantation System - National Geographic Society This article describes the plantation system in the United States and the Caribbean as a tool of British colonialism that contributed to social and political inequality It makes a connection between the economic prosperity of the South and the exploitation of enslaved people
PLANTATION Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com PLANTATION definition: a large farm or estate in a tropical or semitropical zone, for the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugarcane, etc , typically by enslaved, unpaid, or low-wage resident laborers See examples of plantation used in a sentence
List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia As of 1728, there were 91 plantation lots defined on Saint John, U S Virgin Islands As of 1800, maps showed 68 plantations outside the villages of Cruz and Coral Bay
Plantation (settlement or colony) - Wikipedia In the history of colonialism, a plantation was a form of colonization in which settlers would establish permanent or semi-permanent colonial settlements in a new region
Plantation - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Plantations grow cash crops, mostly for export, and less for local use Crops grown on plantations include banana, sugarcane, coffee, tea, cotton and tobacco Most plantations are monocultures, which means only one kind of crop is grown there This means that the farms are more vulnerable to pests
Plantation Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary [count] 1 : a large area of land especially in a hot part of the world where crops (such as cotton) are grown a southern plantation Because slaves worked on cotton plantations in the southern U S in the past, the word plantation is often associated with the history of slavery in the U S