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plural smallholdings
A small farm. examples
(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). quotations
[…] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.
2003, Wilma P. Dunaway, Slavery in the American Mountain South, page 8