plantation system
Enslaved labor agriculture
The plantation system is a form of agricultural organization built on large estates, typically growing cash crops like cotton, sugar, or tobacco using enslaved or otherwise coerced labor.
The term usually refers to the economic and social structure of the American South before the Civil War, though similar systems existed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
The plantation system shaped Southern politics for generations.
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- slaveryOwnership of people
- whipStrikes or aerates
- monocultureSingle-crop agricultural system
- cash cropsPlants grown for profit
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plantation systemsubsistence farming
Growing food for household
subsistence agriculture · smallholder farming · peasant farming · family farm · family farming
plantation systemwage labor
Work exchanged for payment
cooperative farming · collective farming · kibbutz · family labor · self-employment
plantation systemland reform
Redistributing agricultural holdings
agrarian reform · smallholding · land redistribution · village commons