Encyclopedia > Plantation

Article Content

Plantation

A Plantation is a deliberately cultivated area, eg. a large farm, growing one species of plant only, eg. Pine plantations produce raw material for paper making.

Tobacco and coffee are also grown on plantations. The plantations in the southern states of the USA were typically manned by slave labour[?].

Featured Article

Flapper

... galoshes unbuttoned so that they flapped as the wearer walks, the term was already doccumented as in use in the United Kingdom as early as 1912. Writers and artists ...