cotton plantations
Dixie's cash fields
Cotton plantations were large agricultural estates in the American South where enslaved African Americans cultivated and harvested cotton under brutal conditions.
The plantation system dominated Southern economy and society from the late 18th century until the Civil War.
The old cotton plantation has been converted to a historical site.
The term evokes the wealth built on slave labor and the legacy of racial exploitation that followed.
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- slaveryOwnership of people
- slave quartersHousing for enslaved persons
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
- antebellumBefore a war's start
Civil War · boll weevil · cash crop · cottonseed · emancipation · soil erosion · Jim Crow laws · abolitionism · Reconstruction Era · monoculture · field hands · migrant workers · auction block · exploitation · bales · picking · rows · gin
- colonial enterprisesBritish East India Company, Dutch East India Company, East India Company, Hudson's Bay Company, chartered companies
- Gulf SouthNew Orleans, Louisiana Purchase, LSU, Mardi Gras, jazz
- labor systemsbonded labor, chattel slavery, child labor, compulsory labor, contract labor
- historic farmsfarmsteads, homesteads, heritage farms, Mount Vernon, Monticello
- East TexasTyler, Jefferson, Longview, Winona, Henderson
- Fayette CountySomerville, La Grange, Moscow, Oakland, Williston
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Land growing smoking crops
sugar plantations · rice plantations · wheat farms · coffee plantations · corn farms
cotton plantationssubsistence farms
Self-sufficient agricultural plots
homesteads · smallholdings · cooperative farms · kitchen gardens · victory gardens
cotton plantationswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
virgin forest · urban centers · industrial zones · factories · nature preserves