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Virginia tobacco
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Virginia tobacco
n → Virginiatabak m
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In South Carolina last weekend I felt the history of a plantation economy, built by an immoral practice.
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The Mississippi Delta, described one scholar as "the most Southern place on earth" (Cobb 1992), is associated with the flooding of the Mississippi River, cultivation of its alluvial soil, implementation of the plantation economy, the growth of cotton and expansion of cotton trading, the spread of chattel slavery, the rise and fall of the Confederacy, and a battleground of the Civil Rights movement.
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