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单词 plantocrat
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plantocrat

English

Noun

plantocrat (plural plantocrats)

  1. A ruler of a plantocracy.
    • 1845 February 19, “British Guiana”, in The British and Foreign Anti-slavery Reporter, page 32:
      [] whilst the injurious consequences of the proposed wholesale introduction of heathen men, without their families, will still ensue to the present inhabitants of the land—to the poor deluded immigrants themselves—and to the general resources of the colony, upon which, no doubt, our plantocrat rulers will make the burden ultimately to fall.
    • 1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:
      Bond knew Jamaica well, so he asked to be controlled from there and to pass as a Jamaican plantocrat whose father had made his pile in tobacco and sugar and who chose to play it away on the stock markets and in casinos.
    • 2012, Michael E. O'Neal, Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism: Social Transformations in the British Virgin Islands:
      Indeed, Edward Long, the renowned Jamaican plantocrat, felt obliged to concede that these creole whites were so degenerate that even the "better sort" of slaves despised them (Long 1774:289).
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