Meaning of plantocrat | Babel Free

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A ruler of a plantocracy.

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“[…] whilst the injurious consequences of the proposed wholesale introduction of heathen men, without their families, will still ensue to the present⟳ inhabitants of the land⟳—to the poor deluded immigrants themselves—and to the general resources of the colony, upon which, no doubt⟳, our plantocrat rulers will make⟳ the burden ultimately to fall⟳.”

“Bond knew Jamaica well, so he asked to be controlled from there and to pass⟳ as a Jamaican plantocrat whose father had made his pile in tobacco and sugar and who chose to play⟳ it away on the stock⟳ markets and in casinos.”

“Indeed, Edward Long, the renowned Jamaican plantocrat, felt obliged to concede that these creole whites were so degenerate that even the "better sort⟳" of slaves despised them (Long 1774:289).”

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