plantations

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While plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia have not yet been affected, the risk of a stronger El Nino developing from July or August is rising, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

Many vicars, bishops, and archbishops are known to have personally managed investments in plantations, and in the South Sea Company, sometimes paying for renovations to churches and cathedrals.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

But the land was fertile, and the Native Americans told of even richer soil to the east, ideal for encomiendas, as large Spanish-ruled plantations exploiting indigenous labor were called.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Meanwhile the large sugar and tobacco plantations that once belonged to former colonizers were quickly being absorbed by American corporations — not by Cubans.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

There were few plantations that could boast that they had never had a slave run away.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry