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Large estates, known as latifundia, were agricultural operations in which enslaved people worked the land for the owner’s profit.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In the city, and in the household especially, they had more advantages and avoided the brutal physical labor demanded in mines, quarries, and latifundia across the empire.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Yet the Gracchan attempt to solve the land crisis that had been caused by the growth of the monopolistic latifundia, or great estates, was beaten back by the republican Senate.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the old freehold farming class lost its lands to the big owners of the latifundia, the productivity of the soil decreased.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the field of agriculture it promotes, as the Rome of old, the latifundia ownership with all its sequences.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel