Plantation
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Plantations are farms specializing in cash crops, usually mainly planting a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. Plantations, centered on a plantation house,
Sugarcane plantation in Cuba during the 19th century
Sugar cane workers in Puerto Rico, 1941
Sugarcane plantation in rural Cuba
Harvesting tea in Bogor, West Java
Planter class
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The planter class was a racial and socioeconomic class which emerged in the Americas during European colonization in the early modern period. Members of the class, most of whom were settlers of Europe
Plantation
…the flourishing of large plantations, where large numbers of enslaved Africans were held captive and forced to produce crops to create wealth for the planter class, a white elite. Today, as was also true in the past, there is a wide range of opinion as to what differentiated a plantation from a farm. Typically…
1780 painting of two members of the planter class with a woman they had enslaved
A painting of a sugar plantation in Surinam by Dirk Valkenburg
A social event held by slaves in Surinam
Sarah Reeve Ladson, an influential member of the South Carolina planter class.