plantocracy

[ plan-tok-ruh-see ]

noun

, plural plan·toc·ra·cies.

1. government by plantation owners.
2. a ruling class of plantation owners.

plantocracy

/ plɑːnˈtɒkrəsɪ /

noun

1. a ruling social class composed of planters

Example Sentences

Insurance companies grew rich protecting the Southern plantocracy’s slave investments, and banks extended credit to plantations as they spread to the south and west.

From New York Times

The estate, which began to grow sugar in the 17th century, offers visitors a gracious vision of plantation life with manicured gardens, grand dining rooms where the “plantocracy” — plantation owners and their families — entertained guests, and a restored sugar mill that is still processing cane.

From New York Times

They were the ones that Dalby Bedford, now seated beside her, diplomatically sipping from his tankard, liked to call the "plantocracy."

From Project Gutenberg

A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, he maintains, his opposition is based on what he calls the "plantocracy," the big plantation owners who have never forgotten that he was the one who got wage increases for their field hands in the '50s.

From Time Magazine Archive