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2. Plantation, Florida - Wikipedia

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   Plantation is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. It is a part of the South Florida metropolitan area. The city's name comes from the previous part-owner of the land, the Everglades Plantation Company, and their unsuccessful attempts to establish a rice plantation in the area.

3. List of plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Kīlauea. Kauaʻi. Sugar cane plantation that operated from 1880 to 1971; 5 historic buildings NRHP-listed: Manager's House, Head Luna's House, Head Bookkeeper's House, Kilauea School, Kong Lung Store. 66000296. Old Sugar Mill of Koloa. December 29, 1962. Kōloa. 21°54′35″N 159°28′09″W  / . 21.90972°N 159.46916°W.

4. Sunrise, Florida - Wikipedia

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   Sunrise is a city in central-western Broward County, Florida, United States, and is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 97,335. In March of 2021, the cities of Fort Lauderdale and Sunrise, Florida reached an agreement to annex Sunrise. Making all residents of Sunrise become ...

5. Plantations of Leon County, Florida - Wikipedia

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   The plantations of Leon County were numerous and vast. Leon County, in the U.S. state of Florida, was a true cotton kingdom. From the 1820s through 1850s Leon County attracted cotton planters from Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, plus other states and abroad to its fertile red clay soils and long growing season.

6. Slave plantation - Wikipedia

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   The first slave plantations in the New World originated in the Caribbean islands, particularly in the West Indies on the island of Hispaniola, where Spaniards introduced the system in the early 16th century CE. The plantation system, based on slave labor, was marked by inhumane methods of exploitation. After being established in the Caribbean ...

7. Female slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843 onward, of Isabella Baumfree, an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. In 1826, she escaped with her infant daughter to freedom.