plantation

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From then on, the plantation system drove the expansion of slavery and the international slave trade, and eventually survived the demise of both.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Mr. Rood tells us, that the plantation model reached “the apotheosis of the form.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

It saw "no active plantation... indicating that the clearing is infrastructure driven".

From Barron's • Feb. 8, 2026

It is a well-known problem that Myanmar teak continues to find its way into supply chains, passed off for example as plantation teak from other tropical countries.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Born enslaved at Madison’s Montpelier plantation in 1799, he was the son of a house servant and a white English merchant named Jennings.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis