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Plantation, city (1990 pop. 66,692), Broward co., SE Fla., a residential suburb of Fort Lauderdale; inc. 1953. The city has grown rapidly along with the development of S Florida. Major housing developments and the presence of banking companies have marked Plantation's urban boom. The National Hockey League's Florida Panthers play in neighboring Sunrise. plantation 1. an estate, esp in tropical countries, where cash crops such as rubber, oil palm, etc., are grown on a large scale 2. a group of cultivated trees or plants 3. (formerly) a colony or group of settlers How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Beatrice is growing up on a Louisiana sugar plantation in the time of slavery and enjoys the protection of a great-aunt who can communicate with the spirits. A much wiser course is to spend at least one night in Hana, that heavenly former sugar plantation town on Maui's extreme southeast corner. Mary-Mathilda, a descendant of slaves, a mulatto child who becomes the kept woman of the manager of the sugar plantation that dominates the villagers' lives and the mother of his only male heir, is the synthesis of the harsh injustices heaped upon her race. |
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