7 sentences with 'plantation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plantation and other words derived from it.
• « The French Caribbean colonies, especially their sugar plantation colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), produced enormous wealth for the French state and for numerous slave plantation owners and their French trading partners. »
• « The Assembly struggled desperately to maintain control of the situation, hoping in part to win free people of colour in the colony to fight alongside white plantation owners to maintain control. »
• « In time, much of the Atlantic world would become a giant sugar plantation complex where Africans worked to produce the highly profitable commodity for European consumers. »
• « Although far behind Spain, France now had its own West Indian colonies. Both islands became lucrative sugar plantation sites that generated profits for French planters by relying on African slave labour. »
• « However, these landowners did not move to the colonies. Instead, English plantation owners from the small Caribbean island of Barbados, already a well-established English sugar colony fed by slave labour, migrated to the southern part of Carolina to settle there. »
• « South Carolina's 1778 constitution also sought to protect the interests of the wealthy. Governors and lieutenant governors of the state were required to have "a settled plantation or free property in their own right of at least ten thousand pounds sterling in value, free from debt". This provision limited the state's high offices to its wealthiest inhabitants. Similarly, South Carolina state senators were required to own estates valued at £2,000. »
• « Born in the West Indies, Hamilton had worked on a St. Croix plantation as a teenager and had been in charge of the accounts from an early age. He was well versed in Atlantic trade and used that knowledge to set American policy. »