Plantations

I've become accustomed to it, and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is how I know to address my state.

Rhode Island To Vote On Name Change 2010

From British History Online: The complete series of the Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations is now online.

Journals of the Board of Trade and Plantations 1704-1782 2009

Lemons has taught state history and black history, and he adds the argument against Providence Plantations is ironic because Rhode Island was divided on the issue of slavery.

Rhode Island To Vote On Name Change 2010

Lemons has taught state history and black history, and he adds the argument against Providence Plantations is ironic because Rhode Island was divided on the issue of slavery.

Rhode Island To Vote On Name Change 2010

I've become accustomed to it, and State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is how I know to address my state.

Rhode Island To Vote On Name Change 2010

The Procreation, or Children of a Common-wealth, are those we call Plantations, or Colonies; which are numbers of men sent out from the Common-wealth, under a Conductor, or Governour, to inhabit

Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

Year, 1726, I was in the Saffron Country, and in the beginning of _August_ the Saffron-heads or Roots had shut up so long in the flowering part, that the Planters were forced to put them into the Ground: I mean, such as were design'd for new Plantations, which is sooner by near a Month than they used to sprout, though they lay dry in Heaps, the Weather had so great an effect upon them.

The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710

Rhode Islanders have voted to keep the word "Plantations" in the state's official name despite concerns that it evokes images of slavery.

Rhode Island Keeps 'Plantations' In Name The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

Also, I call shenanigans on a Catholic Ulsterman viewpoint character self-identifying as "Scots-Irish" a term restricted to the Lowland Scot Protestants settled in the Ulster "Plantations", and quite frankly, on anyone using that term at all in 1812, when the OED cites only go back to the 1980s for it.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005

There is another class of cigar known in England as "Plantations," here called "Vegueros."

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray