as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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In 2021, Hutchins spent many days on the west coast of the island of Hawai’i among dense forests and coffee plantations carved out of Native Hawaiian lands by American colonizers.
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Bysandeep Ravindran, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
—The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Rather than growing crops that could sustain the local food supply, the Europeans who began arriving in the 1600s focused on exploitative extractive economic models and export cash crops through the plantation economy.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
The enclave of dirt roads and modest homes was founded after the Civil War by freed slaves from an island plantation.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
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Bysandeep Ravindran, science.org, 24 Oct. 2024
This book is not only a retelling of the crime—a story that Till’s family, among others, has already published—but also a rich and wandering history of the township in which Till died: the few square miles of plantations that helped birth both the blues and the Ku Klux Klan.
—The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Rather than growing crops that could sustain the local food supply, the Europeans who began arriving in the 1600s focused on exploitative extractive economic models and export cash crops through the plantation economy.
—Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 22 Oct. 2024
The enclave of dirt roads and modest homes was founded after the Civil War by freed slaves from an island plantation.
—CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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