What were the plantations of the early colonial period designed to do?

Plantations can be defined as large farms in the colonies that used the enforced labor of slaves to harvest cotton, rice, sugar, tobacco and other farm produce for trade and export. Crops were planted on a large scale with usually just one major plant species growing.

the name of the theory is landmass theory.

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