The coffee beans are from a plantation in Hawaii. From LearnThat.org.
The term plantation is an archaic term of Old English that meant a new colony. From Wordnik.com. [WLNE - News] Reference
And I think that's why the term plantation is used much to our - much to our disdain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2001] Reference
The site of the plantation is assumed ripe for commercial exploitation and political control. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Boundaries] Reference
The songs were mostly on the solo and chorus style -- not set to music, what we call plantation or "made-up songs.". From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889] Reference
The students of our schools who go over the country, singing what they call plantation songs, do not know how to sing them. From Wordnik.com. ["In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches] Reference
You know, in her statements today, she doesn't use the word plantation at all. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2006] Reference
If they somehow equate the word plantation to slavery I find that a bit shallow. From Wordnik.com. [WLNE - News] Reference
A permanent skilled workforce is desirable for large, longer term plantation work. From Wordnik.com. [8. Organizing the work] Reference
Now I'm not knocking the Hacienda Chalante which is an old henequin plantation dating from the 1600s. From Wordnik.com. [Weird Interpretations of Mexican Food] Reference
Having rented an old plantation from the French company, they had had the good fortune to find a regular frame house ready for them. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
Their dialect is called plantation English and was influenced largely by British tutors hired to teach the children of plantation society. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Rainbow] Reference
Slew of Republicans refer to Democratic party as "plantation" - when are they apologizing?. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference
A slew of Republicans refer to Democratic party as "plantation" - when are they apologizing?. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Plantation by Kos] Reference
A slew of Republicans refer to Democratic party as 'plantation' - when are they apologizing?. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Plantation by Kos] Reference
Slew of Republicans refer to Democratic party as "plantation" - when are they apologizing? by on. From Wordnik.com. [01/17/2006] Reference
So they think the plantation is the only place to be. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Sure it was that his plantation was a paying investment. From Wordnik.com. [Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice] Reference
In spring the plantation was a particularly pleasant place. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
From these figures I should say the plantation is a success. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919] Reference
A plantation was a bed of roses only if the thorns were turned aside. From Wordnik.com. [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference
They ought to call the plantation "Twenty Graves," she thought moodily. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
Everyone on the plantation was a servant, except Tia Luisa and her son. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
The plantation was the unit in Virginia; in New England it was the town. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
This applies to a limited plantation, that is, of from 200 to 400 acres. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
The plantation was a fine place to be on, so the six little Bunkers thought. From Wordnik.com. [Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's] Reference
He says the term plantation was used in the 17th century to mean settlement. From Wordnik.com. [Rhode Island To Vote On Name Change] Reference
His plantation was a small one and he only had eight servants who were all women. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3] Reference
"Then how is it that this plantation, which is so solitary, has not been attacked?". From Wordnik.com. [The Privateer's-Man One hundred Years Ago] Reference
On the plantation was a large goose pond which they used for skating in the winter. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Slavery in the United States of America] Reference
Whoopi, the only people who insist that you stay on the plantation are the Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
I give a drawing of a Chinese tea-plantation, which is very similar to those we saw in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [In the Eastern Seas] Reference
The woman out at the plantation was a drifty young girl waiting for what would happen to her. From Wordnik.com. [A Corpse is a Corpse]
A remarkable feature of the plantation is a steep bank, the original strand line of the Island. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Not a slave on the plantation was astir, and the sounds of slumber were coming from the quarters. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The last visitor to the plantation was a company that currently operates an electric power plant in. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The parting from our former owners and the members of our own race on the plantation was a serious occasion. From Wordnik.com. [Up from Slavery: an autobiography] Reference
The stable of the plantation was the first building they saw, for the west side of the mansion was concealed by a dozen lofty trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Lieutenant at Eighteen] Reference
The ceremony at the plantation was a double one, for at the time Mrs. Ruthven married the colonel Marion gave her heart into the keeping of. From Wordnik.com. [Young Captain Jack The Son of a Soldier] Reference
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