Plantation
noun
A large farm, especially in hot countries, where cash crops like coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.
The vast sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved Africans.
Often appears as...
- sugar plantation
- cotton plantation
noun
A large number of particular types of trees or other plants that have been planted.
Pine plantations have been grown for use in the timber industry.
Often appears as...
- pine plantation
- tree plantation
noun
A large farm, especially in hot countries, where cash crops like coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown.
The vast sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved Africans.
Often appears as...
- sugar plantation
- cotton plantation
noun
A large number of particular types of trees or other plants that have been planted.
Pine plantations have been grown for use in the timber industry.
Often appears as...
- pine plantation
- tree plantation
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Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Plantations often refer to historical farms with forced labor, evoking sensitive and dark pasts.
History lessons about plantations reveal the harsh realities of slavery.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'plantation' may carry a negative connotation due to its association with colonial exploitation.
The old plantation house stands as a reminder of colonial oppression.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Perspective
Nowadays, the term can be neutral, describing large-scale commercial farming operations.
Working on a modern banana plantation can be demanding.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Plantations often refer to historical farms with forced labor, evoking sensitive and dark pasts.
History lessons about plantations reveal the harsh realities of slavery.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'plantation' may carry a negative connotation due to its association with colonial exploitation.
The old plantation house stands as a reminder of colonial oppression.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Perspective
Nowadays, the term can be neutral, describing large-scale commercial farming operations.
Working on a modern banana plantation can be demanding.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Plantations often refer to historical farms with forced labor, evoking sensitive and dark pasts.
History lessons about plantations reveal the harsh realities of slavery.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
In some contexts, 'plantation' may carry a negative connotation due to its association with colonial exploitation.
The old plantation house stands as a reminder of colonial oppression.
Pro Tip 3/3Modern Perspective
Nowadays, the term can be neutral, describing large-scale commercial farming operations.
Working on a modern banana plantation can be demanding.
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The global movement to...
protection from the intense fires that now threaten the region every summer. The UN suggests that almost half of reforested areas around the world are monocultures just like this, planted for rapid timber production or carbon capture. Just like a farm, these plantations may be valuable for timber, but they are not the restoration of nature.
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Sir David Attenborough...
been felled and replaced by plantations of eucalyptus imported from australia unfortunately many of madagascar's animals can't find the food they require in this new and foreign environment but even so the place was not totally barren of animal life dead logs to anyone looking for animals
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What will change Africa?...
that's when I built my houses and paid my children's school fees in the absence of that really what are they going to do so we forget that it has to be a way to bypass that bottleneck and give power to the raw folk and in doing our work with computerized plantations we've done okay
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I Bought a Rain Forest,...
They are just people trying to make a living. And what I saw was this endless poverty trap. Three years ago now, I'd bought an illegal coca plantation by mistake. These are raw coca leaves. They have the highest alkaloid content of any coca leaves in the world.
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Steve Winter: On the...
where the tiger is going to live in Sumatra forever for one reason and one reason only their mountainous and you can't put a palm oil plantation there so here we go they're in these beautiful mountains beautiful jungle one of the most
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The coolest animal you...
where natural habitat and wildlife populations are rapidly being eradicated by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large sugarcane and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few.
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Why should you read...
to the Maryland plantation of her ancestors. Early on, she learns that her mission is to save the life of the white man who will rape her great grandmother. If she doesn’t save him, she herself will cease to exist.
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Is Your Perfume Made...
And there is possibility to carry it out as plantations. If we are able to protect the trees in the wild and replenish the wild populations, Then I think the trade should be incentivized.
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Rehabilitating Baby...
the forest is very much alive but this life is under threat the wildlife is impacted because of the plantations because of farming and because of human encroachment in a year
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How Sustainable...
plantations were very very important to my upbringing my family my brothers and
Video examples
The global movement to...
protection from the intense fires that now threaten the region every summer. The UN suggests that almost half of reforested areas around the world are monocultures just like this, planted for rapid timber production or carbon capture. Just like a farm, these plantations may be valuable for timber, but they are not the restoration of nature.
Video examples
Sir David Attenborough...
been felled and replaced by plantations of eucalyptus imported from australia unfortunately many of madagascar's animals can't find the food they require in this new and foreign environment but even so the place was not totally barren of animal life dead logs to anyone looking for animals
Video examples
What will change Africa?...
that's when I built my houses and paid my children's school fees in the absence of that really what are they going to do so we forget that it has to be a way to bypass that bottleneck and give power to the raw folk and in doing our work with computerized plantations we've done okay
Video examples
I Bought a Rain Forest,...
They are just people trying to make a living. And what I saw was this endless poverty trap. Three years ago now, I'd bought an illegal coca plantation by mistake. These are raw coca leaves. They have the highest alkaloid content of any coca leaves in the world.
Video examples
Steve Winter: On the...
where the tiger is going to live in Sumatra forever for one reason and one reason only their mountainous and you can't put a palm oil plantation there so here we go they're in these beautiful mountains beautiful jungle one of the most
Video examples
The coolest animal you...
where natural habitat and wildlife populations are rapidly being eradicated by several different threats, including once again cattle ranching, large sugarcane and soybean plantations, poaching, roadkill, just to name a few.
Video examples
Why should you read...
to the Maryland plantation of her ancestors. Early on, she learns that her mission is to save the life of the white man who will rape her great grandmother. If she doesn’t save him, she herself will cease to exist.
Video examples
Is Your Perfume Made...
And there is possibility to carry it out as plantations. If we are able to protect the trees in the wild and replenish the wild populations, Then I think the trade should be incentivized.
Video examples
Rehabilitating Baby...
the forest is very much alive but this life is under threat the wildlife is impacted because of the plantations because of farming and because of human encroachment in a year
Video examples
How Sustainable...
plantations were very very important to my upbringing my family my brothers and
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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B. B. King
American Musician
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Robert Wilson
American Director
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
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J. M. G. Le Clezio
French Writer
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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Dolly Parton
American Singer
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
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Julie Christie
British Actress
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
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Rege-Jean Page
English Actor
My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.
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Samuel Ervin Beam
American Musician
I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.
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Kamisese Mara
Fijian Statesman
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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B. B. King
American Musician
I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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Robert Wilson
American Director
What was very interesting to me about Clementine Hunter's work is that she couldn't read or write, and she has recorded history of the plantation life and the southern part of the U.S. - the cotton harvests, pecan picking, washing clothes, funerals, marriages - in pictures.
Quote examples
J. M. G. Le Clezio
French Writer
To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
Quote examples
Dolly Parton
American Singer
My favorite movies of all times is 'Doctor Zhivago,' and I love 'Gone With the Wind.' I'd love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.
Quote examples
Julie Christie
British Actress
My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.
Quote examples
Rege-Jean Page
English Actor
My introduction to the United States was plantations in Louisiana. It was delightful.
Quote examples
Samuel Ervin Beam
American Musician
I was raised in the suburbs. I wasn't on a plantation or anything.
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Kamisese Mara
Fijian Statesman
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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