SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Question
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Where slaves were sold
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A big farm where crops like sugar were grown
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A name given to a slave boat
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A name given to a slave owner
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Detailed explanation-1: -Arecanut (betel nut), cardamom, cashew, cocoa, coconut, coffee, oil palm, rubber, and tea are the major crops grown on a plantation scale. Most of these plantation crops are cultivated as monocultures, exceptions being coconut, arecanut, cocoa, and coffee, which are grown either as a mono crop or as a multiple crop.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plantation agriculture is an extensive type of agriculture where the large size of the farm is utilized to grow a single crop which is even known as monoculture.
Detailed explanation-3: -The major crops that are grown in the plantations are coffee, tea, sugarcane, cashew, rubber, banana, and cotton.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sugarcane, a tall, robust, tropical C4 grass, has been a prized plantation crop for many centuries. Crop heights of between 2-4 metres generally leads to tonnages of 60-160 tonnes harvestable stalk material from each cropped hectare, depending on climate, soil health, fertility and farming system.