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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"