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Definition of "plantations" []

  • Plural form of plantation. (noun)

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Use "plantations" in a sentence
  • "On sugar plantations the profit is much more on each individual; but the risk is greater, and the deaths are generally calculated at one-third of the gang in ten years: this is the cause why slaves _on sugar plantations_ are so miserably fed and clad, for their being rendered less wretched would not make them less susceptible to the epidemic."
  • "Some people in what we, of course, call Rhode Island, say the word plantations is a hurtful reminder of slavery."
  • "Act directed that no merchandise from Asia, Africa, or America, including therein English "plantations," as the colonies were then styled, [17] should be imported into England in other than"