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Example sentences for: plantations
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Other loyalists set up cotton plantations on various islands, and slaves soon became the majority of the population.
It also happens to be the site of one of the world's most important archeological discoveries, known as Java Man, and of vast coffee plantations (hence the common usage of the term java to mean coffee).
Another waterfall can be enjoyed near the mountain village of San Gabriel Mixtepec, a small town nestled between several coffee plantations.
In 1807 Parliament made the trade in slaves illegal, but the powerful sugar lobby exerted pressure and slavery continued on the plantations.
This has been supplemented by the spread of lucrative palm oil plantations, the discovery of rich new reserves of petroleum and natural gas off the north coast of Borneo and the east coast of the peninsula, and development of manufacturing and tourism industries.
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