Definition of Plantocracy. Meaning of Plantocracy. Synonyms of Plantocracy

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Definition of Plantocracy

Plantocracy
Plantocracy Plan*toc"ra*cy, n. [Planter + -cracy, as in democracy.] Government by planters; planters, collectively. [R.]

Meaning of Plantocracy from wikipedia

- of such a society itself. Slavocracies are also sometimes known as plantocracies, after "planter" used as a term for the owners of plantations. A number...
- led to the term "distressed Cavaliers", often applied to the Virginia plantocracy. Some Cavaliers who served under King Charles I fled to Virginia. FFVs...
- authorities. The reaction of the colonial government and reprisals of the plantocracy were far more brutal than any actions undertaken by the rebels; approximately...
- slaveowner who was born into a family which belonged to the Antiguan plantocracy. One of his friends in the West Indies was Simon Taylor, one of the richest...
- Belize, on the east coast of Central America, southeast of Mexico, was inhabited by the indigenous peoples who fought off the Spaniards in an attempt to...
- as Bussa, the name of a slave who helped inspire a revolt against the plantocracy society in Barbados in 1816, though the statue is not actually sculpted...
- destruction of many plantations, and led to ferocious reprisals by the plantocracy class. As a result of rebellions such as these, as well as the efforts...
- opposition to slavery led to its abolition in the British Empire in 1833. The plantocracy class retained control of political and economic power on the island...
- British-educated Trinidadian elite, many of whom were descended from the plantocracy class. Petroleum had been discovered in 1857, but became economically...
- organization established to represent the views of the British West Indian plantocracy, i.e. the ruling class who owned and ran the slave-based plantations...