Sentence examples for plantation for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cain has characterized the Democratic Party as a "plantation" for black voters.

"I could buy a plantation for what it costs to rent an apartment here".

She's lived on the plantation for as long as she can remember.

An editorial in a black newspaper complained that Harlem was now "a modern-day plantation for white thrill-seekers".

For most of the last century, it served primarily as a large grape plantation for the leading Champagne houses, all situated to the north.

The manor figured significantly in the infamous triangle trade involving slaves, sugar and rum, as the provisioning plantation for the family's sugar estate on Barbados.

The immigrants often provided manual labour, in Malaya's copper mines and rubber plantations, for instance.

There is plenty of limestone for cement-making and lots of arable land for sugar plantations, for instance.

The slaves of the Athenian Laurium silver mines or the Cuban sugar plantations, for example, lived in largely male societies.

Due for UK release on 10 January, 12 Years A Slave is adapted from Northup's memoir describing life working on Louisiana plantations for 12 harrowing years.

The marines remained in the area through April, but spent most of their time raiding nearby plantations for cotton rather than fighting rebels.