12 sentences with 'planters'
Example sentences and phrases with the word planters and other words derived from it.
• « Southern planters strongly opposed Jefferson's views on the abolition of slavery and the expulsion of blacks from the United States. »
• « Well-connected Virginia planters faced stagnant tobacco prices and hoped that expansion into these western lands would stabilise their wealth and status. »
• « By the end of the 17th century, a very wealthy class of slave-dependent rice planters had achieved dominance in the southern part of the Carolinas, especially around Charles Town. »
• « In the antebellum era - that is, in the years before the Civil War - American planters in the South continued to grow Chesapeake tobacco and Carolina rice as they had in colonial times. »
• « Although far behind Spain, France now had its own West Indian colonies. Both islands became lucrative sugar plantation sites that generated profits for French planters by relying on African slave labour. »
• « While wealthy merchants and planters formed the core of Federalist leaders, members of the Democratic-Republican societies in cities such as Philadelphia and New York came from the ranks of the artisans. »
• « Thousands of slaves united to overthrow the brutal system of slavery. They took control of much of the island, burning sugar plantations and killing the white planters who had forced them to work under the whip. »
• « During the colonial era, wealthy planters and merchants in the American colonies had modeled their behaviour on the British ruling class, whose social order demanded deference to those of lower rank. Old habits die hard. »
• « For many revolutionaries, especially wealthy landowners, merchants and planters, democracy did not offer a good replacement for monarchy. Indeed, conservative Whigs defined themselves in opposition to democracy, which they equated with anarchy. »
• « Party members also differed: Whigs tended to be wealthier; they were prominent planters in the South and wealthy urbanites in the North, i.e. the beneficiaries of the market revolution. The Democrats presented themselves as defenders of the common people against the elite. »
• « Events in Haiti further complicated partisan disputes in the United States. White refugee planters from Haiti and other French West Indian islands, along with slaves and free people of colour, left the Caribbean for the United States and Louisiana, which was then in Spanish hands. »
• « By the mid-18th century, Britain had become a commercial and military power; its economic influence stretched from India, where the British East India Company had acquired control of both trade and territory, to the coast of West Africa, where British slave traders predominated, and the British West Indies, whose lucrative sugar plantations, especially in Barbados and Jamaica, provided windfall profits for British planters. »
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