If you don’t understand plantations, you don’t understand capitalism.
Plantations weren’t just farms — they were early profit-driven systems that shaped global markets.
They combined land consolidation, forced labor, production scaling, export logistics, insurance markets, and international finance. Long before factories dominated cities, plantations were already operating with accounting systems, labor discipline, global supply chains, and ruthless efficiency.
To understand modern capitalism — scale, extraction, capital accumulation, and global trade — you have to examine its early engines. And many of those engines were plantations.
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