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"Diamond" Pitt
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English entrepreneur who bought, cut, and sold 410 carat diamond
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Laborde
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Leading French banker who raised money for the French government, gained nobility and titles for his family.
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plantation system
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A new economic system that emerged due to European colonization of the Americas; sugar was one of the major crops produced under the plantation system
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domestic system
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In Britain especially, a system by which people worked characteristically in their own cottages, employed as wage earners by merchant capitalists
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cottage industries
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another name for the domestic system, especially in Britain
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