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a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers. |
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the keeping of slaves as a practice or institution. |
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thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc. |
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| a person who oversees; supervisor; manager: the overseer of a plantation. |
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the act or power of resisting, opposing, or withstanding. |
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open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler. |
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| a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands |
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a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances, etc.; a runaway: a fugitive from justice; a fugitive from a dictatorial regime. |
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a discussion, as of a public question in an assembly, involving opposing viewpoints: a debate in the Senate on farm price supports. |
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united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy. |
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