Virtually shut out in management positions, blacks still see themselves as part of a plantation system, where they are nothing more than field hands.

Yeah, it was almost like a plantation system-- That's interesting.

The plantation system forced those whites to struggle for subsistence.

Other slave resistance efforts against the French plantation system were more direct.

Blacks were given their freedom in the 1830's, but the island's economy, based on the plantation system, suffered.

But Southern masters held their ground, and with the restoration of peace they carried the plantation system west.

Throughout the region, Africans developed a variety of response to the plantation system.

Just another little man caught in a plantation system?

Only that his views regarding the plantation system are not much different from your own.

The South was dominated by a settled plantation system based on slavery.