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Explain the "Plantation System" and the types of crops that were grown on plantations,

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The division of the land into smaller units under private ownership became known as the plantation system. Plantation economies rely on the export of cash crops as a source of income. Prominent crops included cotton, rubber, sugar cane, tobacco, figs, rice, kapok, sisal, and species in the genus Indigo used to produce indigo dye

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