Sentence examples for a plantation system from inspiring English sources

Harvested cane was sent to a mill for grinding within a few hours after cutting; this necessitated establishment of a plantation system in which the workers would be housed close to the fields and the sugar mill.

The issues raised by a plantation system wherein "student-athletes," an imaginary group of people who carry none of the rights of either part of that label, are exploited by the most prominent cartel in America, the NCAA.

Ms. Lynch said the defendants "ruthlessly exploited their immigrant employees," forcing them to live in unregulated boardinghouses and "creating a modern -day plantation system".

—Loretta Lynch, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, after federal authorities seized fourteen 7-Eleven stores on Long Island and Virginia and accused their owners of operating a "modern-day plantation system".

More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a "modern-day plantation system," prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers.

In some settings, however, native tree species may compete with exotic tree species when managed in a short-rotation plantation system (Cubbage et al. 2007; Griess and Knoke 2011).

Prosecutors brought charges against at least nine store owners or managers, accusing them of running a "modern-day plantation system," ABC News reports.

The other system is a new mangrove plantation system in which seedlings of Rhizophora spp., A. marina, Bruguiera cylindrical, and Ceriops tagal were planted at 1.5 × 1.5 mintervals, making up 4 strips of 37.5 × 100 m each.

This Texas is a toxic byproduct of the hierarchical plantation system of the American South, a cruel caste society in which the white, brown and black majority labor for inadequate rewards while a cultivated but callous oligarchy of rich white families and their hirelings in the professions dominate the economy, politics and the rarefied air of academic and museum culture".

As a result, slavery and the plantation system became fixtures in the American South.

It is understandable that there are those for whom these trainers are bad reminders of the Atlantic slave trade and the plantation system, with a flippant disregard for centuries of human suffering and exploitation.