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Bookmark or Share- Plantation, Florida - WikipediaPlantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area.
- What Is a Plantation? The Dark History of the South's Most Beautiful HomesPlantations are also sites of brutal oppression: They’re largely responsible for the prolific growth of slavery in the United States. Curious about how plantations came to be? Here’s a primer...
- The Plantation System - National Geographic SocietyThis article describes the plantation system in the United States and the Caribbean as a tool of British colonialism that contributed to social and political inequality. It makes a connection between the economic prosperity of the South and the exploitation of enslaved people.
- 10 Most Famous Plantations - Have Fun With HistoryA plantation is a farm that primarily grows one type of cash crop, with potentially some supplementary fields for food crops and other uses. It is typically centered around a plantation house. Cotton, coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees, and forest trees are only few of the crops cultivated here.
- Plantation - WikipediaPlantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house, grow crops including cotton, cannabis, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees.
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