| 单词 | to send to the plantations |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto send (prisoners, etc.) to the plantations c. to send (prisoners, etc.) to the plantations and variants: to send (prisoners, etc.) to penal service or indentured labour in the colonies. Usually in passive. Now historical.As the labour was chiefly on the plantations in sense 5, the phrase tended to be associated with that sense. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > transport > to the colonies barbados1655 to send (prisoners, etc.) to the plantations1655 1650 Acts Parl. Scotl. (Recd. ed.) VI. ii. 745 b To deliver unto Mr Samuel Clarke, to transport to Virginia, 900 prisoners of the Scots [taken at Dunbar]..according to such desires as shall bee made by anie who will carrie them to plantations not in enmity to this Commonwealth.] 1655 Mercurius Politicus No. 259. 5372 Divers persons..who were in the late Rebellious Insurrection, [were to] be sent away to the Foreign Plantations. c1664 in Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. ii. 209 If his Majesty had any such intention, he would rather choose to be sent to a plantation. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 319 He had a kind of Horror upon his Mind at his being sent to the Plantations as the Romans sent Slaves to Work in the Mines. 1765 E. Burke Let. in Corr. (1958) I. 197 Will the law suffer a felon sent to the Plantation to bind himself for his Life? 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 660 Some of them had been hanged:..and the rest should be sent to the plantations. 1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster III. xxvi. 30 We must needs be hanged, as will doubtless happen to most, or sent to the Plantations, or die of gaol-fever. 1961 R. Koebner Empire iii. 94 Such impressions [sc. of colonial morals] were, in fact, justified only in relation to certain groups of colonists—convicts who had been ‘sent to the plantations’, smugglers and pirates. < as lemmas |
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