Meaning of plantocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Government by plantation owners.
2. The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government.

Examples

“Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.”

“Although remnants of the plantocracy retained positions of economic and political importance into the 1960s and represented the hardest core of Jamaican conservatism, its significance was historical rather than contemporary.”

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