Sentences with phrase «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
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.
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.
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.
A new bio details the suffering of Curt Flood, who rattled the chains of baseball's plantation system
«We are serving notice that no longer will the plantation system of... appointing our leaders exist...»
Comparing it to The Help is doing this book a disservice, because though I did like that book, this book immerses the reader in the plantation system, it is told from the viewpoint of Polly Shine and Granada, a young house raised slave that she takes to train, because Polly Shine feels that she has the same gift as herself.
Biggers» buoyant clouds are twisted from chicken wire and stuffed with raw cotton, referencing the plantation system and the sky under which its slave laborers fled.
The drawings tap the same subject matter as her silhouettes: how the plantation system, powered by slave labor, laid the framework for hetero - and homosocial interactions that have birthed and bolstered stereotypes for nearly 250 years.
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