cotton-plantation

Along Deer Creek the alluvium was higher, and there was a large cotton-plantation belonging to a Mr. Hill, who was absent, and the negroes were in charge of the place.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

If he had been born with money, and lived here in these stagnating hills, or down yonder on some lazy cotton-plantation, he would have settled down before this into a genial, child-loving, arbitrary husband and master, fond of pictures and horses, his house in decent taste, his land pleasure-giving, his wines good.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

Along Deer Creek the alluvium was higher, and there was a large cotton-plantation belonging to a Mr. Hill, who was absent, and the negroes were in charge of the place.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Complete 1855

Along Deer Creek the alluvium was higher, and there was a large cotton-plantation belonging to a Mr. Hill, who was absent, and the negroes were in charge of the place.

Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 1 1855

Along Deer Creek the alluvium was higher, and there was a large cotton-plantation belonging to a Mr. Hill, who was absent, and the negroes were in charge of the place.

The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 1855

By his new and rude master, Tom was forthwith marched off; put on board a vessel for a distant cotton-plantation on Red River; stripped of his decent apparel by his savage owner, and dressed in the meanest habiliments.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Various 1841

The building is no longer there, but the sight of the wide open cotton fields helps one understand the feel of life for an aspiring young musician stuck in the role of cotton-plantation tractor driver.

The Charleston Gazette - 2009