English Dictionary

middling plantation

名詞

アメリカ英語 歴史的

(US, historical) A medium-sized plantation with about 20-49 slaves. Contrasted with small plantation or smallholding (19 or less slaves) and large plantation (50+ slaves).

日本語の意味

奴隷を20～49人所有する中規模なプランテーション（米国歴史における分類）

The historian described the family's estate as a middling plantation that relied on the labor of about thirty enslaved people to cultivate its cotton fields.

歴史家はその一家の領地を、奴隷がおよそ20～49人いる中規模農園であると記述した。

意味（1）

(US, historical) A medium-sized plantation with about 20-49 slaves. Contrasted with small plantation or smallholding (19 or less slaves) and large plantation (50+ slaves).

A planter or large plantation held fifty or more slaves while a middling plantation or slaveholder owned twenty to forty-nine slaves. Thus, a small plantation was one on which there were nineteen or fewer slaves. (Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South: Introduction 9, 2003)

middling plantations （ plural ）