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PLANTATION PLANTATION definition - n English law. A colony; an original settlement in a new country. See 1 Bl. Comm. 107. In American law. A farm; a large cultivated estate. Used chiefly in the southern states. In North Carolina, “plantation” signifies the land a man owns which he is cultivating more or less in annual crops.
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ESTATE smallholding - a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation. homestead - land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law. feoff, fief - a piece of land held under the feudal system.
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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States The agricultural structures on plantations had some basic structures in common and others that varied widely. They depended on what crops and animals were raised on the plantation. Common crops included corn, upland cotton, sea island cotton, rice, sugarcane, and tobacco.
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ranch Definition of ranch. 1  1 : a large farm for raising horses, beef cattle, or sheep. 2  2 : a farm or area devoted to a particular specialty. 3  3 : ranch house.
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forest (ˈfɒrɪst) n. 1. (Forestry) a large wooded area having a thick growth of trees and plants. 2. (Forestry) the trees of such an area. 3. (Forestry) NZ an area planted with exotic pines or similar trees. Compare bush14. 4. something resembling a large wooded area, esp in density: a forest of telegraph poles.
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swamp The definition of a swamp is a low area of land that is always or sometimes saturated with water. An example of a swamp is the Okefenokee swamp located in Georgia and Florida.
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Plantation, Sarasota County, Florida This article is about the census-designated place on the Gulf Coast of Florida. For the city on the Atlantic Coast, see Plantation, Florida. Plantation is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 4,919 at the 2010 census.
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- The Plantation Generation --who became part of and made possible the emergence of a plantation society (largely tobacco and rice) along the Chesapeake in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (18th century).
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garden leave definition, garden leave meaning | English dictionary a an area of land used for the cultivation of ornamental plants, herbs, fruit, vegetables, trees, etc. b (as modifier) garden tools Related adj → horticultural. 3 often pl such an area of land that is open to the public, sometimes part of a park. botanical gardens.
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Plantation complexes in the Southern United States Southern plantations were generally self-sufficient settlements that relied on the forced labor of slaves, similar to the way that a medieval manorial estate relied upon the forced labor of serfs. Today, as was also true in the past, there is a wide range of opinion as to what differentiated a plantation from a farm.
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Plantation Tree plantations are usually easily distinguished from natural forests by the trees being planted in straight lines. A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops. The crops grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, rubber trees, and fruits. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations were located. A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern Un
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homestead homestead. The dwelling house and adjoining land forming the permanent residence of the head of household.Under modern law,a person's homestead is given a very specific definition within each state's statutes and is then granted protections from creditors and against excessive real estate taxes.
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- Poor whites. But just plantation being a possibility means this is probably pre-civil war, so tenants are no longer a choice... So Poor/yeomen, was there a difference?
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- - Plymouth Plantation: A Story of Religious Intent, or Monetary Gain. It is not a stretch to say that if one is to study the history of Europe, or in fact the world, religion is likely one of the most important aspects of nearly any incident or movement in the past 2000 years. What of the colonies that Europe created overseas, however.
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- slavery. n. 1. (Law) the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his life, liberty, and fortune.bolitionism. the movement for the abolition of slavery, especially Negro slavery in the U.S. — abolitionist, n. helotism. the condition or quality of being a helot; serfdom or slavery.
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- Plantation Services Inc. specializes in real estate sales and management of farms, timber tracts, rural land and hunting plantations. These southern plantations comprise thousands of acres and are some of the most beautiful estates anywhere.
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- Full Definition of COLONIAL. 1. : of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony. 2. often capitalized: of or relating to the original 13 colonies forming the United States: as. 3. 4. — co·lo·nial·ize \-nē-ə-ˌlīz, -nyə-ˌlīz\ transitive verb.
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- A slave is a person who is owned or enslaved by another person. In colonial times, people from the west coast of Africa were captured and shipped to Virginia and other colonies to work as slaves. In Virginia these Africans lived and worked on plantations or small farms where tobacco was the cash crop.
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- RESULTS: The age-and gender-specific reference curves demonstrate a continuous age-dependent increase of percentage body fat from age 3 to 18 years in girls; whereas in boys, the percentile curves steeply increase from 5 to 11 years and thereafter slightly decrease.ince corresponding worldwide growth curves of percent body fat (% BF) are missing, the purpose was to contribute smoothed percentiles of percentage body fat from a large urban sample of German youths and to include them in actual national and international percentile curves.
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estate estate (ɪˈsteɪt) n 1. a large piece of landed property, esp in the country 2. chiefly Brit a large area of property development, esp of new houses or (trading estate) of factories 3. (Law) property law a. property or possessions b. the nature of interest that a person has in land or other property, esp in relation to the right of others c. the total ...
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Definition of 'possession' Definition of 'possession'. possession (pəzeʃən ) If you are in possession of something, you have it, because you have obtained it or because it belongs to you. Those documents are now in the possession of the Guardian. We should go up and take possession of the land.
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- Check your grammar now! : an enclosure or barracks formerly used for temporary confinement of slaves or convicts —often used in plural.
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- Garden definition, a plot of ground, usually near a house, where flowers, shrubs, vegetables, fruits, or herbs are cultivated. See more.
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- Recent Examples of plantation from the Web. 1  The plantations extended inland from the Mississippi River in long rectangular plots. 2  Dix, who had grown up on a plantation on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, had gone to the Gulf Coast after suffering a nervous breakdown brought on by a stressful 11-year marriage.
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colonial Definition of colonial. 1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony.
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colonial colonial - of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony. 2. colonial - of animals who live in colonies, such as ants. 3. colonial - composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony; coral is a colonial organism.