In opposition to the expanding plantation system of the British, they formed well-organized and efficient underground military units.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

In this case, it represents a slave plantation in Alabama, where the old system of ownership has persisted into the nineteen-thirties.

NEWYORKER: Manderlay

Even if employers do not resort to the tactics used by Caribbean sugar-plantation owners, Abhijit Banerjee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology thinks the system would still have problems.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus