WordNet
n. the owner or manager of a plantation [syn: planter]
Usage examples of "plantation owner".
A plantation owner from the eastern part of the colony, Richard Caswell had no sympathy with the Regulators' grievances.
I hoped, of course, that the Yanga of the maroons was a different man than the Yanga I had helped free, but I remember the plantation owner chortling over the slave's claim that he had been a prince.
Helper that if a plantation owner were going to be lazy, or indifferent, or cruel to his slaves, or inattentive to every small and irritating item of management, he might do better hiring his help rather than owning it.
Helper that if a plantation owner were going to be lazy, or indifferent, or cruel to his slaves, or inattentive to every small and ir.
Shelby, a kindly Kentucky plantation owner, is forced by debt to sell two of his slaves to an unsavory trader named Haley.
Perhaps he would find out something from Al Sharkey or the other plantation owner, Rex Sinclair.
Dressed in the clothes of a plantation owner of the Civil War period, the man looked as if he might have stepped out of one of the pictures in the museum.
Although he looked hot, cross, and tired, more like a day-laborer than a gentleman plantation owner whose ancestors had always “.
He wanted to press his advantage over Clement, so he scrambled to his feet to lunge after the plantation owner.
And when she gazed into the eyes of plantation owner Ryan Barrington, the most handsome man Brianne had ever seen, the enraptured lovely was certain she had died and gone to heaven!
According to the stories, he'd been freed prior to the Civil War for saving the plantation owner's son from drowning in the Big Black River.
I will be forced to report to the press that a trusted officer of the King has had a liaison for the past two years with the wife of a certain plantation owner in Savannah.