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How to use the word plantations in a Sentence?

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The heart of Louisiana was big slave plantations and most Whites in Louisiana were deeply committed to White Supremacy.

Eric Foner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of the early burial grounds were associated with plantations or land that people didn’t own, they’re really vulnerable to development if people don’t know they’re there.

Barbara Heath

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

If you don't understandthat something like that is problematic in 2018,there's a lot of me that you won't understand.It's as simple as that, you know what was a long time ago? Plantations...I would ask those same peoplewho are so triggered, to bring that same energyto supporting folks of color who are asking for change.

Matt James -LRB- right -RRB-

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I had often heard old' darkies' on Southern plantations address the lady in the' big house' as' Ole Miss ',' i have never thought much about the matter, for I never dreamed, of course, that the term would grow into such popularity and favor.

Elma Meek

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I was stunned when I first observed that macaques feed on rats in plantations, i did not expect them to hunt these relatively large rodents, or that they would even eat so much meat.

Nadine Ruppert

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

By using this, he was able to show men who had never ever been to see a slave trip or had visited any docks, or warehouses or plantations themselves ... how terrible the conditions for the enslaved Africans were on board these ships.

Rebecca Nelson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

so, I ask america- what color of skin people have your-john locke- life, liberty, and property in the pursuit of happiness philosophy? violence has always been what defines you. whites ran from religious oppression and persecution in europe to america. blacks came to america as forced slave labor to whites on plantations. I will say to america- violence will not save you. racism and hate will not save you. eugenics will not save you. jah will move the earth from under your feet. you still have some time to save yourself. no one wins a war. wise up!!!

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

It could be good for cane plantations, but not so good for coffee.

Celso Oliveira

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Forest destruction in the Cyclops mountains have increased for use as firewood and to turn the land into plantations, since 2018 we have warned the Jayapura government to be careful of flash flood risks because of this deforestation.

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Forestry plantations are being felled and cleared and avocados planted, there are also areas that were either bush or some grazing that's been planted to avocados.

Derek Donkin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This isn't just about destroying (plantations), it's about finding solutions for people forced to cultivate poppies, and there will be an important announcement in this context at the summit on a new cooperation plan between the three countries to deal with problems that obviously concerns us all.

Paulo Carreno

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This exercise allows a more inclusive certification between commercially managed plantations by Felda Global Ventures and FELDA smallholders.

Felda Group

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Plantations outside the protected forests and parks are old and aren't as productive as here.

Vincent Karsamba

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem is allowing landholders in Indonesia taking part of the forest for palm oil plantations – what is good for the economy may not ultimately be good for the forests.

Birute Galdikas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The disease has already cost Matanuska, the company that owns the plantations, about $7.5 million. A total of 230,000 plants have been affected and destroyed. At the current rate of infection, the farm is losing 15,000 plants per week, translating to $236,000 per week.

George Mahuku

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It takes a village, that's an African idea that developed on plantations as a means of survival.

Sara Daise

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If there's no money to prepare the plantations now, we'll have to worry about disease at the start of the main crop and big losses.

Labbe Zoungrana

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We understand that the reconnaissance imagery shows widespread devastation, not only buildings flattened -- palm plantations, trees. It's quite a devastating sight.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Their plantations are usually the first to be destroyed so this would have a major impact on their livelihoods.

Lesi Korovavala

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Without commercial plantations, it will just become extinct, there's no doubt about that.

Gerard McGuirk

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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