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Plantation
Plantation Plan*ta"tion, n. [L. plantatio: cf. F. plantation.]
1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth
for growth. [R.]
2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece
of ground planted with trees or useful plants; esp., in
the United States and West Indies, a large estate
appropriated to the production of the more important
crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate;
as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation.
3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony.
While these plantations were forming in Connecticut.
--B. Trumbull.
Meaning of Plantation from wikipedia
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Plantations are
farms specializing in cash crops,
usually mainly planting a
single crop, with
perhaps ancillary areas for
vegetables for
eating and so...
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Plantation complexes were
common on
agricultural plantations in the
Southern United States from the 17th into the 20th century. The
complex included everything...
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Plantation is a city in
Broward County, Florida,
United States. It is a part of the
South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name
comes from the previous...
- The
Plantation of
Ulster (Irish: Plandáil Uladh;
Ulster Scots:
Plantin o Ulstèr) was the
organised colonisation (
plantation) of Ulster – a
province of...
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Magnolia Plantation may
refer to: in the
United States (by state)
Magnolia Plantation,
Florida Magnolia Mound, St. Bernard, Louisiana,
listed on the National...
- A
plantation economy is an
economy based on
agricultural m**** production,
usually of a few
commodity crops,
grown on
large farms worked by
laborers or...
- A tree
plantation,
forest plantation,
plantation forest,
timber plantation or tree farm is a
forest planted for high
volume production of wood, usually...
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Providence Plantation can
refers to:
Providence Plantations, an
English colonial settlement in
Rhode Island, the
United States Providence Plantation and Farm...
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Plantation tradition is a
genre of
literature based in the
Southern United States that is
heavily nostalgic for
antebellum times. The
ideology is that...
- A
slave plantation was an
agricultural farm that used
enslaved people for labour. The
practice was
abolished in most
places during the 19th century. Planters...
