cotton plantation
Southern agricultural estate
A cotton plantation is a large agricultural estate devoted to growing cotton, historically associated with the American South before the Civil War, where enslaved people provided the labor.
The old cotton plantation has been converted into a museum.
The term evokes the brutal economics of slavery and the antebellum social order built around it.
- slaveryOwnership of people
- slave quartersHousing for enslaved persons
- auction blockPodium for public sales
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- plowingTurning earth for crops
sharecropping · cash crop · white gold · soil erosion · abolitionism · antebellum · emancipation · export trade · irrigation · water usage · harvesting · boll weevil · monoculture · crop rotation · textile industry · colonialism · Civil War · ginning
- cottonboll, cottonseed, fiber, gin, ginning
- farming settlementsfarming village, farming town, agricultural town, farmstead, rural hamlet
- landholdingsestate, estates, landholding, holdings, holding
- plantationsMelrose, Monmouth, Longwood, slave quarters, great house
- old industriesblacksmithing, ironworks, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries
- 19th Century Industriessteel mill, textile mill, coal mine, oil company, factory
cotton plantationtextile mill
Facility producing woven goods
cotton mill · spinning mill · manufacturing plant · cotton gin
cotton plantationsubsistence farm
Self-sufficient agricultural plot
smallholding · family farm · homestead · kitchen garden · vegetable garden
cotton, plantation, cottons, cottony, cottoned, plant, plants, planted, planting