The planter class was a racial and socioeconomic class which emerged in the Americas during European colonization in the early modern period. Members of...

debutante or other fashionable young woman of European heritage in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the...

the Acadian Expulsion Old Planters (Massachusetts), early settlers of Massachusetts A farmer Planter class, the collective class of plantation owners in...

growing cash crops which were in high demand in Europe. Owned by the planter class, plantations, large-scale farms where large numbers of enslaved Africans...

Plantation and had a privileged upbringing typical of members of the planter class, attending boarding schools in Winchester, Virginia, and Raleigh, North...

Southern gentleman became popular as a chivalric ideal of the slaveowning planter class, emphasizing both familial and personal honor in addition to the ability...

"Ancient planter" (sometimes called ancient colony men) was a term applied to early colonists who migrated to the Colony of Virginia when the settlement...

so-called Idejo class of titled aristocrats, who all claim descent from the earliest Yoruba settlers of Lagos. In the Americas, the planter class owned large...

purchased a farm. The former overseer never attained the status of the planter class, who would have had more land and more than 50 enslaved workers. Epps...

beyond the image of the planter class", and the principles of Southern hospitality were eventually adopted by non-planter class and Southern African Americans...

including as a term for the planter class of such a society itself. Slavocracies are also sometimes known as plantocracies, after "planter" used as a term for...

middle-class locals and those frontier families being agitating against the presumed treason of the crown. Consequently, the planter classes debated...

political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money...

be realized, its potential scale stoked the fears of the antebellum planter class that led to increased restrictions on both enslaved and free African...

they were President Lincoln’s grandparents. As members of the Virginia planter class, early generations of the Harrisons included typically abusive slaveholders...

Augustine Washington Jr., and politician Charles Washington. Born into the planter class of the British colony of Virginia, Washington owned several slave plantations...

when their ancestors had accumulated fortunes as members of the elite planter class, or as merchants, slave traders, ship-owners, or fur traders. In many...

The decision in their favor prompted a backlash from the French white planter class on Saint-Domingue, who also exerted power in France. These elements...

supply, making slave ownership more accessible to those outside the planter class, and making individual slaves cheaper and more disposable, in the hopes...

presidential candidate in 1804 and 1808, losing both elections. Born into a planter class family from South Carolina, Pinckney practiced law for several years...

"Five Civilized Tribes" purchased slaves and became members of the planter class. A number of Indian nations of the time are considered "slave societies"...

Negligence and Depravity", or "Martland Act" named after Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland. In December 2012, a teenage victim of sexual exploitation...

scalawags in terms of social class, showing that, on average, they were less wealthy or prestigious than the elite planter class. As Thomas Alexander (1961)...

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slaveholders, large (such as the large-scale plantations owned by the planter class) and small. They lived and attempted to survive on ground that was sandy...

States Income inequality in the United States Old Philadelphians Planter class Social class in the United States Social Register Upper Ten Thousand Wealth...

of the Spanish threat and economic pressure from Georgia's emergent planter class forced Parliament to reverse itself. Having envisioned the Georgia colony...

Unionists came from all classes, most differed socially, culturally, and economically from the regions dominant pre-war planter class. The South suffered...

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try to prevent Black political activity by any means. While the elite planter class often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans...