Plantation economy: Agricultural system using coerced labor to produce cash crops such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton.
How to apply it: Use the plantation economy to connect colonial agriculture, the slave trade, and global commodity markets.
Course: AP World History · Unit: Transoceanic Interconnections
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