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What is a plantocracy?

What is a plantocracy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Government by planters.
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Drawing together with the ruling plantocracy, Picton pursued his government with an authoritarian style and an easy use of violence.
And sometime between 1834 and 1838 several Germans make their way to Jamaica to work to support Jamaica's failing plantocracy.
In 1758, the plantocracy burned alive a rebel leader, François Macandal, a one-armed runaway slave and voodoo priest.
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.
Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy.
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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