HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Bananas and oranges
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Sugar and tobacco
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Wheat and barley
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Sheep and cattle
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Detailed explanation-1: -Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the genus Indigofera, used to produce indigo dye.
Detailed explanation-2: -Plantation crops are perennial crops that are grown on a large scale by an individual or a company. For example, rubber, tea, coffee, oil palm, coconut, etc. They are also known as cash crops.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brookgreen Plantation Georgetown County, S.C. America’s largest slaveholder. In 1850 he held 1, 092 slaves; Ward was the largest slaveholder in the United States before his death in 1853. In 1860 his heirs (his estate) held 1, 130 or 1, 131 slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -A slave plantation was an agricultural farm that used enslaved people for labour.
Detailed explanation-5: -In India, tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, banana, etc. are important plantation crops.