plantocracy

The plantocracy believed they could not farm without free labour.

The plantocracy also controlled exports and the working conditions of the majority of the population.

The reaction of the Jamaican Government and plantocracy was far more brutal.

Harris allowed him editorial freedom and this led to problems with the establishment, who saw him as challenging the plantocracy.

In this he was no different from the other sons and daughters of the 'plantocracy' who were busy buying up country seats in the area.

"I know that the Church, unlike the rest of the plantocracy in Barbados, established the first schools for black children there.

The rebellion was suppressed by the militia of the Jamaican plantocracy and the British garrison ten days later in early 1832.

A plantocracy, also known as a slavocracy, is a ruling class, political order or government composed of (or dominated by) plantation owners.

She is a descendant of the plantocracy, and much of her early work examined her identity as a white Barbadian woman.

"On one extreme is the tough life in the Kingston ghettos, on the other is the lives lived by the descendants and successors of the plantocracy.

A British governor described it as "the embodiment of every reactionary force in Seychelles", and it was entirely concerned with protecting the interests of the plantocracy.

Africans were then later set to work on the vast cotton, tobacco and sugar plantations in the Americas for the economic benefit of these colonial powers and their plantocracy.

This effort was severely undermined by the British Home Office and by the British-educated Trinidadian elite, many of whom were descended from the plantocracy themselves.

It was the fact that this was essentially a planters' system which ensured that the stations were built of a standard and elegance which a plantocracy could use with comfort.

The elite plantocracy of the island during the colonial era felt that Christianity was ill-suited for slaves; instead, the Church of England sent missionaries to convert the slave population.

Then came his attacks on the same status quo, the plantocracy, in the House of Assembly in 1934 one consequence of which was the near ruin of his legal practice."

More recently, though, the historian and biographer Richard Norton Smith has wondered how much could have taken place secretly in a society as given to gossip as the plantocracy of Tidewater Virginia.

"He is America's hero, not ours, and he was a part of that same white plantocracy that has always held us back," said Michael Harewood, a 27-year-old Rastafarian who opposes the project.

Although the smallest group in terms of numbers, members of the plantocracy had links to British commercial interests in London and often enjoyed close ties to the governor, who was appointed by the monarch.

Due to the profitable Triangular trade and the high quality of Nevisian sugar cane, the island soon became a dominant source of wealth for Great Britain and the slave-owning British plantocracy.

The period after emancipation in 1834 initially was marked by a conflict between the plantocracy and elements in the Colonial Office over the extent to which individual freedom should be coupled with political participation for blacks.

Visiting the sturdy surviving homes of the Danish plantocracy, you can see from tables and four-posters, and lounging chairs with extended arms that planters used to hook their boots off, that when sugar was king mahogany was ace.

This was a signal to the local plantocracy that the British government was now fully committed to the policy of improving the condition of slaves in its colonies and was conscious that full freedom could not be very long delayed.

A Different Mentality "Grenada has evolved from a plantocracy, so their mentality is different from ours," said Mr. Clouden, peppering his speech with phrases like "liberty or death," and "taxation without representation," evocative of the American Revolution.

Other members of the regional board, often criticized as a haven for the old British "plantocracy," include a banker and owners of shipping and insurance companies, an ice-cream plant, a rice plantation and mill, and a chain of betting parlors, as well as a few retired players.