Like many of the planter elite, the Chesnuts fell onto hard times after the war.

Its early planter elite built numerous antebellum mansions and estates.

The planter elite no longer engendered automatic respect for having fought in the Civil War.

In the first century after independence, descendants of the wealthy black planter elite ruled Haiti.

He had family ties to some of Georgia's planter elite, and after the wars became a wealthy cotton-planter.

Like others in the planter elite, they were supported by the labor of slaves.

In Virginia, Wayles became part of the planter elite.

The planter elite paid for private education for its own children.

Although one of the planter elite, Butler became a leading spokesman for the frontiersmen and impoverished settlers in the western part of the state.

The context was that a planter elite kept taxes low because it benefited them.