smallholding
See also: small holding
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smallholding (plural smallholdings)
- A small farm.
- The owning of such a farm.
- (US, historical) A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less). Contrasted with middling plantation (20–49 slaves) and large plantation (50+ and owned by planters).
- 2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8:
- […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.
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