During the seventeenth century, what were colonial plantations?

The word "plantation" was applied to the large farms that were the economical basis of many of the 17th-century American colonies. ... Slaves outnumbered whites and free people of colour by at least eight to one, but provided nearly all of the manual labour, and essentially all of it on the plantations.

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the magna carta is a peace treaty between the king and the rebels. it was made because the the barons captured london in may 1215, so the king was forced to make a treaty with them.the document is written in latin.

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