9 sentences with 'planter'
Example sentences and phrases with the word planter and other words derived from it.
• « William Byrd II of Westover, Virginia, is an example of colonial nobility; a wealthy planter and slaveholder, he is known for founding Richmond and for his diaries documenting the life of a gentleman planter. »
• « George Washington did not seek to become the new king of America, but retired as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and returned to his Virginia estate at Mount Vernon to resume his life among the planter elite. »
• « When Jefferson was running for president in 1796, an anonymous Southern planter wrote: "If this wild project succeeds, under the auspices of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, and three hundred thousand slaves are set free in Virginia, farewell to the security, prosperity, importance, perhaps the very existence of the Southern States". Slave owners and many other Americans protected and defended the institution of slavery. »
• « The Maryland Constitution, drafted in 1776, restricted office-holding to the wealthy planter class. A man had to own at least 5,000 pounds of personal property to be governor of Maryland, and to own an estate of 1,000 pounds to be a state senator. The latter requirement excluded more than 90% of Maryland's white men from political office. »
• « They created a culture that celebrated hard work, a position that put them at odds with southern planter elites who valued leisure and with other northern elites who had largely inherited their wealth and status. »
• « In the summer of 1819, James Long, a planter from Natchez, Mississippi, became a filibuster, or unauthorised private military adventurer, when he led 300 men on an expedition across the Sabine River to seize control of Texas. »
• « Some free blacks in the South owned their own slaves. Andrew Durnford, for example, was born in New Orleans in 1800, three years before the Louisiana Purchase. His father was white and his mother was a free black woman. Durnford became a US citizen after the Louisiana Purchase and rose to fame as a sugar planter and slave owner in Louisiana. »
• « Inspired by the successful overthrow of the white planter class in Haiti, Louisiana slaves took up arms against the planters. »
• « A healthy young slave in the 1850s could sell for $1,000 (approximately $30,000 in 2014 dollars), and a planter who could sell ten of these slaves reaped a windfall. »