9 sentences with 'plantations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word plantations and other words derived from it.
• « Over the centuries, poor farmers found it increasingly difficult to hold on to their land, both because they could not compete with the huge slave plantations of the rich and because of outright extortion. »
• « Some slaves did domestic work, but most were part of the massive labour force on huge plantations and in the mines. »
• « The only efficient way to grow sugar was through proto-industrialised plantations with waste processing facilities built to extract raw sugar from sugar cane. That, in turn, required an enormous amount of dangerous and back-breaking labour. »
• « Over the course of the next few years, the rebellion in St. Domingue saw French authority destroyed, plantations overrun, and hundreds of thousands of slaves seizing their freedom. »
• « Mines and plantations were crucial to this phase of imperialism in Africa and Asia, as they had been to the early European exploitation of the Americas. »
• « In 1444, slaves were brought from Africa to work on the sugar plantations of the Madeira Islands off the coast of modern Morocco. »