plantation
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Oil and gas, plantation, and renewable energy stocks could benefit, while contractors may face margin pressure from higher transport and logistics costs, he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
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
The plantation also became a central component in new transnational commercial networks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Mr. Rood, a professor of history at the University of Georgia, treats the plantation primarily as a sophisticated economic machine that developed into an engine of profit-making in the modern economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
This was a severe period on that plantation, and saw many unhappy restrictions upon the small luxuries and freedoms the servants had been accorded.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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