USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The planter class, known alternatively in the United States as the Southern aristocracy, was a racial and socioeconomic caste of pan-American society that dominated 17th and 18th century agricultural markets.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern class structure had four basic social classes: the wealthy plantation slave owners, non-slave-owning yeoman farmers, poor whites, and slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The planter’s aristocracy was a social group of the American colonies and early republic that was made up of landowners in the southern colonies who had grown wealthy by farming cash crops like tobacco, indigo, rice, and cotton.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the top was the aristocratic landowning elite, who wielded much of the economic and political power. Their plantations spanned upward of a thousand acres, controlling hundreds-and, in some cases, thousands-of enslaved people.