Planter example sentences

Within a few years the British planters abandoned their estates, which reverted to the peasants.Black people were captured and brought from Africa to America, sold to white planters, and made to work on cotton and other plantations – most of them in the southern United States.“Thinking probably that he would not give way, the representative of the planters offered to refund to the extent of 25 per cent, and to his amazement Mr.The official inquiry assembled a crushing mountain of evidence against the big planters, and when they saw this they agreed, in principle, to make refunds to the peasants.Therefore, as far as the peasants were concerned, the planters had behaved as lords above the law.