| Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy. |
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| A quick study of planter rule, he was soon wielding the whip with the best of Jamaica's plantocracy. |
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| And sometime between 1834 and 1838 several Germans make their way to Jamaica to work to support Jamaica's failing plantocracy. |
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| The plantocracy, who controlled the judiciary, had since the founding of the colony mandated the cruelest punishments for resistance. |
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| On the night of August 15 1791, Boukman called on the spirits of ancestral Africa to punish the plantocracy. |
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| Since independence the elite of the ruling political party has replaced the European plantocracy at the apex of Guyana's social order. |
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| In 1758, the plantocracy burned alive a rebel leader, François Macandal, a one-armed runaway slave and voodoo priest. |
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| The first abolition of slavery and the almost total elimination of the white plantocracy during the French Revolution had far-reaching social and economic consequences. |
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| There was a prevalent view among the contemporary British West Indian plantocracy that racial intermarriage was abhorrent. |
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| Drawing together with the ruling plantocracy, Picton pursued his government with an authoritarian style and an easy use of violence. |
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| In Maria, Efrain leaves a decaying plantocracy to spend his formative school years in Bogota. |
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| Perhaps it is the landscape with its innate harshness or the oppression by the plantocracy that makes some men remain boys. |
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| Once slavery was outlawed in the British Empire in 1833, the plantocracy demanded indentured labor. |
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| He may remain close to his mother, but he acknowledges that she and her friends – plantocracy and expats – were of another generation and didn't understand his friendships with the locals. |
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| This is all the more important given the country's historical reality of the consolidation of capital in the hands of the plantocracy and the merchant class who were predominantly of European origin. |
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| The plantocracy put down the frequent slave uprisings with much severity. |
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