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Highly venomous and responsible for more fatal snake bites in Central America than any other species, the fer-de-lance is well camouflaged and can blend into plantation habitats, sometimes going unnoticed by workers.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

Eston Hemings was born on May 21, 1808, and raised in slavery at Monticello, the Jefferson plantation in Virginia.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Mount Vernon, George Washington’s longtime plantation home, has given that trend a new twist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

This would become the definitive form of the 18th-century American plantation house; George Washington’s Mount Vernon is the most famous example, and the original Monticello was a similarly bookish performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The way Great-Grampy JonJon must have at that life-shattering plantation house supper?

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

American inspectors in Michoacán, who monitor plantations and packing plants to ensure the fruit is pest-free, occasionally have found themselves in the cross-hairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A common misconception about American slavery is that most enslaved African-Americans lived on large plantations where contact with slaveholders was limited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Meanwhile, the Deep South consisted of a landowning class, some of whom relocated from slave plantations in the Caribbean, who formed an "oligarchic, top-down society".

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Sharda Devi, 55, a settler's daughter, recalls the first arrivals "toiling in some of the harshest conditions" to carve plantations out of the tangled forests.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

In Sister Julianna’s company, on tours of North Carolina tobacco plantations, Farmer met a number of Haitians.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French