plantation
noun
- a colony or new settlement.
- the establishment of a colony or new settlement.
adjective
Origin of plantation
Plantation
noun
Examples from the Web for plantation
Contemporary Examples of plantation
Hamer married in 1944 and moved with her husband to Ruleville, Miss., where they were sharecroppers on a plantation.
Remembering Civil Rights Heroine Fannie Lou Hamer: 'I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired'Lottie L. Joiner
September 2, 2014
After firing that off, he clumsily asked what a plantation mentality is.
“I think you have more of a plantation mentality than I do,” he said.
Located in northern California, the Plantation Farm Camp takes everything back to the basics.
Mississippi was “probably the worst, because of its plantation aristocracy.”
Historical Examples of plantation
What was to become of the slaves on this plantation now that the master was dead?
Harriet, The Moses of Her PeopleSarah H. Bradford
This was my position on the plantation a short time after school was out for the term.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
There was plenty to do on the plantation, and there was no good cause for sending me away.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
I told him I belonged to a man by the name of Potts, and that I was going to his plantation.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
I did not stop to put on my clothes until I had got two or three miles from the plantation.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson