plantation

Example Sentences

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Audubon, who was born in Haiti and grew up in France, moved to Pennsylvania where he lived on his father's plantation.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

For the next few years, George labored in Creek territory before asking to be relocated to a plantation in Silver Bluff, S.C., where his life took a major turn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

George grew up on a tobacco plantation approximately 30 miles southwest of Jamestown, Va., where in 1619 some of the first enslaved Africans in British North America were sold to colonists.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

With the growth of canals and railroads in the 19th century, Americans’ taste for coffee spread across the country, accelerated, Mr. Rood says, by the “product-cheapening” mass production of the plantation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

I liked to mention that I was the great-great-granddaughter of a slave named Jim Robinson, who was probably buried in an unmarked grave somewhere on a South Carolina plantation.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama