Historians noted that the region's middling plantations often acted as a social bridge between large estates and small family farms.

The students researched the historical context behind the name Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for their civics project.

The abandoned estate had an eerie, plantationlike layout, with long rows of overgrown trees and a central manor house.

The plantationer ordered the workers to harvest the ripe sugarcane before the storm hit.

The plantationers debated whether to switch to drought-resistant crops this season.

The Plantationocene highlights how our current geological epoch has been shaped by the widespread effects of large-scale monocropping and plantation systems.