Sentence examples for large plantation from inspiring English sources

Col. Maunsell White, an Irish immigrant, slave owner and entrepreneur, operated a large plantation in Louisiana.

In addition to running the large plantation, he became active in local politics.

Fazenda, large plantation in Brazil, comparable to the slave-based plantations of the Caribbean and the United States.

We met a group of them who work on a large plantation owned by Grupo Acon, a major supplier to Dole, Fyffes, Tesco and Walmart-Asda.

The Nantabu school's experimental plot of oil palm even helped create a local economy, a large plantation with jobs for impoverished villagers.

He became an Episcopal bishop, owned a large plantation and several hundred slaves, and joined the Confederate Army when the war began.

In the underdeveloped areas, two types of buildings are found: those of the latifundia, or large plantation-type farms, and those of the small-owner or tenant farms.

Writer lived in a large plantation-like suburban house called April Folly, & hired four natives as servants, all of whom had bilharzia, a parasitic disease transmitted by snails living in sluggish waters.

Some newcomers worked as sharecroppers and hired hands, others eventually bought large plantations.

Tells about a land reform policy which broke up the large plantations.

Slavery was prohibited in order to avoid the growth of large plantations.