"colony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By the 18th century Maryland had developed into a plantation colony, requiring vast numbers of field hands.
- With the plantation colony, the powerful, rich country use the poorer country's land to grow crops.
- Before the crisis, the commission system of trading prevailed in the southern plantation colonies.
- The primary purpose of the trading post was to supply slaves for the plantation colonies in the Americas.
- Like its larger neighbor, Virginia, Maryland developed into a plantation colony by the 18th century.
- Still others were old plantation colonies in the West Indies and the Caribbean.
- Most of the slaves were sent to Madeira, which became, after thorough deforestation, the first European plantation colony.
- A century later, plantation colonies were established by the Dutch and English along the many rivers in the fertile Guyana plains.
- During the eighteenth century the numbers of slaves imported into Maryland greatly increased, as the tobacco economy became dominant, and the state developed into a plantation colony.
- Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was founded by Baptists.
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