SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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overseer
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broker
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planter
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indentured servant
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Detailed explanation-1: -The owner of a plantation was called a planter. The wealthiest planters, such as the Virginia elite with plantations on the James River, had more land and slaves. In the “Black Belt” counties of Alabama and Mississippi, the terms “planter” and “farmer” were often synonymous.
Detailed explanation-2: -An individual who owned a plantation was known as a planter. Historians of the antebellum South have generally defined “planter” most precisely as a person owning property (real estate) and 20 or more slaves.
Detailed explanation-3: -: one that cultivates plants: such as. a(1) : farmer. (2) : one who owns or operates a plantation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Definitions of plantation owner. the owner or manager of a plantation. synonyms: planter. type of: farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster. a person who operates a farm.