Sentence examples for plantations to from inspiring English sources

At great risk, slaves in the Confederacy deserted their plantations to join the Union armies.

· In America in the 1800s an 'underground railroad' enabled slaves on southern plantations to flee to the north or Canada.

After full emancipation in 1838, black freedmen left the plantations to establish their own settlements along the coastal plain.

That was followed by the fire sale of plantations to Northern industrialists and various ill-starred enterprises.

In the years following the Civil War, numerous families moved from devastated Southern plantations to farms and ranches in Texas.

They have also been reported to venture onto plantations to feed on roots of sugarcane and cassava.

Based on these forced confessions, the vigilance committee believed that the conspiracy had spread from the plantations to the city.

Kenneth Richter, who campaigns against biofuels, said: "Massively expanding sugar cane plantations to produce biofuels will significantly threaten Brazil's rainforest.

Forests in Asia and South America are being destroyed by the expansion of plantations to meet the European market.

With concessions covering about 2.6m hectares across Sumatra and Borneo, APP has undertaken large-scale forest clearance to make way for plantations to feed its massive pulp mills.

We should certainly pressure corporations that use these plantations to pay their workers above starvation wages, but this does not constitute an economic alternative.