as in colonies
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Fiji’s cotton plantations rapidly declined in the early 1870s due to the industry’s resurgence in the American South.
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
In the early 1860s, plantations in the American South produced 75 percent of the cotton used around the globe.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Unsurprisingly, white European settlers and Confederate refugees who sought respite from the Civil War in the South Pacific played a pivotal role in the new plantations’ development.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
The book explores the tensions among auction blocks, dining tables, street vendors, sugar plantations, food markets, cookbooks, tourism and much more.
—Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
The same shop also stocks healing crystals and bespoke tea blends with black tea from plantations around southern Azerbaijan’s Lankaran region.
—Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2024
By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.
—Elizabeth M. Reese / Made By History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Their forefathers and descendants have been on this land for nearly 300 years starting as slaves on the plantations.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
The plantations, stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, were confiscated by the Union Army during and after the Civil War.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
In the early 1860s, plantations in the American South produced 75 percent of the cotton used around the globe.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
Unsurprisingly, white European settlers and Confederate refugees who sought respite from the Civil War in the South Pacific played a pivotal role in the new plantations’ development.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
The book explores the tensions among auction blocks, dining tables, street vendors, sugar plantations, food markets, cookbooks, tourism and much more.
—Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
The same shop also stocks healing crystals and bespoke tea blends with black tea from plantations around southern Azerbaijan’s Lankaran region.
—Chris Schalkx, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Nov. 2024
By publicly and privately drawing attention to the institution of slavery and those enslaved, especially in Southern cities and plantations, Lafayette was making his position known and trying to hasten the end of the odious practice.
—Elizabeth M. Reese / Made By History, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
Their forefathers and descendants have been on this land for nearly 300 years starting as slaves on the plantations.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
The plantations, stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, were confiscated by the Union Army during and after the Civil War.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2024
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