Phrases with «plantation system»

The phrase "plantation system" refers to a type of farming arrangement where large areas of land are used to grow cash crops, typically with the labor of enslaved people. These plantations were common during the colonial era and were mainly found in the southern parts of the United States and other parts of the world. Full definition

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Sentences with «plantation system»

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Baseball teams. (salon.com)
And here all this time you thought that the Civil War was fought over states» rights and that «peculiar institution» called slavery, that the Underground Railroad was a network of escape routes across the Mason - Dixon and the southern plantation system was built on the backs of black labor. (cinemadope.com)
Louverture held many views modern progressives find hard to endorse: his loyalty to the empire, his defense of the plantation system, his willingness to forgive former slaveowners. (firstthings.com)
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Phrases with «plantation system»

Sentences with «plantation system»

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