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Sugar plantation
A sugar plantation is a large agricultural estate growing sugarcane for sugar production, typically using intensive labour. From the fifteenth century such plantations, worked by enslaved Africans, spread from Atlantic islands to Brazil and the Caribbean. They were central to the Portuguese, French and Brazilian empires, and the Empire of Japan later developed sugar production in Taiwan.
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