Examples of planter

• Moreover, planters complained that larger estates were being forced to provide these services while smaller estates and smallholdings were exempted from these rules.

• Scholars now suggest that this violence was managed, often emerging as a means of settling grievances between planters and older inhabitants.

• There is no evidence of the type of arrangements established between independent planters and mills during the years of primitive sugar production.

• When the mills failed to honour their contractual obligations with regard to water, planters resorted to litigation.

• Dubious weighing procedures set off countless disputes between planters and mill owners.

• By the late seventeenth century, these absentee planters already engaged in lobbying activities.

• However, only big planters and mills had access to institutional sources of credit.

• Although the tin tickets proved to be a considerable success, the planters and the government adopted further measures to supervise labour recruitment and immigration.