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Revision as of 09:08, 10 August 2004 by El C (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A plantocracy is a ruling class, political order or government comprised of (or dominated by) plantation owners.
A number of early European colonies in the New World were largely plantocracies, with a small European, settler population relying on a large non-European chattel slaves population (as well as European indentured slaves), and later, sharecroppers for labour. Many plantocracies proved to be a decisive antiabolitionist force. One prominent organization largely representing (and collectively funded by) a number of plantocracies was the West Indies Lobby in the British Parliament, one which significantly dealyed the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1806-1808) and the Emancipation of chattel slavery (from 1823-1833, supplanted by a policy known as Amelioration) in the British Empire (1834-1838).
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