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Plantations began because first of all...People need food...Second, White men who owened a lot of land...THought if they bought slaves it would save them money. Instead of having to hire people to work there land. They could buy slaves...That's why plantations started...

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Well, according to a timeline from the Early Modern Era, roughly from 1450-1750. The first people to use plantations were the Portuguese in 1530's. They traveled to Brazil and started their plantations there.

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It was derived from Dutch and Portuguese agriculture.

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