Which best describes a plantation in the 1800s?

In the 1800s, plantations were large agricultural estates, especially in the American South, where crops such as cotton and sugar were grown. Their owners relied heavily on enslaved people, whose labor was exploited. A plantation was not a small family farm or a textile factory, so the best description is “an agricultural estate that exploited the labor of enslaved people.”

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