- of such a
society itself.
Slavocracies are also
sometimes known as
plantocracies,
after "planter" used as a term for the
owners of plantations. A number...
- led to the term "distressed Cavaliers",
often applied to the
Virginia plantocracy. Some
Cavaliers who
served under King
Charles I fled to Virginia. FFVs...
- authorities. The
reaction of the
colonial government and
reprisals of the
plantocracy were far more
brutal than any
actions undertaken by the rebels; approximately...
- Belize, on the east
coast of
Central America,
southeast of Mexico, was
inhabited by the
indigenous peoples who
fought off the
Spaniards in an
attempt to...
-
slaveowner who was born into a
family which belonged to the
Antiguan plantocracy. One of his
friends in the West
Indies was
Simon Taylor, one of the richest...
- as Bussa, the name of a
slave who
helped inspire a
revolt against the
plantocracy society in
Barbados in 1816,
though the
statue is not
actually sculpted...
-
establishment of the
Republic was met with
coldness and
distrust by the
white plantocracy due to the
professed abolitionism of the new
Republican authorities in...
-
destruction of many plantations, and led to
ferocious reprisals by the
plantocracy class. As a
result of
rebellions such as these, as well as the efforts...
-
organization established to
represent the
views of the
British West
Indian plantocracy, i.e. the
ruling class who
owned and ran the slave-based plantations...
-
opposition to
slavery led to its
abolition in the
British Empire in 1833. The
plantocracy class retained control of
political and
economic power on the island...
