Option C is Correct. All of the following are the characteristics of a plantation except that plantation was operated like a small farm.
Plantation and Slave Trade
The Plantation history of US is related to three things, rise of Aristocracy, rise of Enslavement, and Civil war. The main Characteristics of Plantations were to cultivate large lands for cash crops such as opium, and Cotton.
For this they needed cheap manpower, and therefore it creates market for slave trade. Therefore we can say that the main characteristics of plantation was not operating like a small farm.
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