cotton plantation

The area near the river was developed for cotton plantations.

In the 19th century, much of the land was developed for cotton plantations and the market town did good business.

He spent three years in Louisiana associated with a cotton plantation.

It used to be cotton plantations, until the land wore out.

Israel made no secret of having run away from a Mississippi cotton plantation.

The call is one of several water boy calls in cotton plantation folk tradition.

Her family were wealthy, and owned a cotton plantation until 1898.

In the nineteenth century, cotton plantations were developed along the river.

The town relies on trade from the cotton plantations for its economy.

He was one of 11 children in a sharecropper family on a cotton plantation.

Nearly the entire island was cleared of trees to make way for several large cotton plantations.

It was developed for large cotton plantations, worked by slave labor.

Settlers came looking for land on which to establish cotton plantations.

But there are few slaves in your state, even fewer cotton plantations.

Once again, he returned to the family cotton plantation.

The expatriates brought a cotton plantation economy to the islands.

More than sixty percent of the county's population were slaves working on cotton plantations.

Growing numbers of cotton plantations increased the settlement's population greatly.

During the conflict period, a cotton plantation and processing plant just outside the city were destroyed.

Nancy was the financial manager of the family, developing an Alabama cotton plantation.

He worked on a cotton plantation for a time as a youth and later in a steel mill.

How can we tie the opium trade in with the great cotton plantations of the South?

His family moved to Mississippi in 1865, where his father worked a cotton plantation.

The land was formerly used as a cotton plantation.

He eventually sold the cotton plantations, and invested in banking.