as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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During the transatlantic slave trade, Tasso Island served as a plantation supplying food for captives and British troops stationed at nearby Bunce Island.
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Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
The old rice plantation on Butler Island also has personal significance for Mitchell—her paternal ancestors are from McIntosh County and may have been enslaved there.
—Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Insults follow crimes; anonymous texts sent to Black people after the election ordered them to report to the nearest plantation to pick cotton.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
This led some formerly enslaved people, such as a man named James Augustus, to return to the plantation.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
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Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
The old rice plantation on Butler Island also has personal significance for Mitchell—her paternal ancestors are from McIntosh County and may have been enslaved there.
—Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Insults follow crimes; anonymous texts sent to Black people after the election ordered them to report to the nearest plantation to pick cotton.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
This led some formerly enslaved people, such as a man named James Augustus, to return to the plantation.
—Nyya Toussaint / Made By History, TIME, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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