South Carolina planters

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South Carolina planters were wealthy colonial slaveholding landowners whose economic and political power depended on plantation agriculture and the exploitation of enslaved Africans.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf landowning class
slaveholding elite
social class
associatedWith Ashley River plantations
Charleston
Cooper River plantations
Stono River region
linked to: Stono River
benefitedFrom Atlantic slave trade
domestic slave trade
classCharacteristic Anglican and later Episcopal religious affiliation
elite education for sons
large landholdings
ownership of many enslaved people
patriarchal family structure
wealth concentration
country Colony of South Carolina
Province of South Carolina
State of South Carolina
linked to: South Carolina
culture honor culture
planter aristocracy culture
declinedDuring American Civil War
Reconstruction era
economicBasis plantation agriculture
slave labor
heldRole economic elite in South Carolina
political elite in South Carolina
slaveholding aristocracy
influenced South Carolina colonial legislature
South Carolina politics
U.S. national politics
legacy enduring racial inequality in South Carolina
plantation landscapes and historic sites
location Lowcountry South Carolina
South Carolina backcountry
South Carolina coastal region
mainCashCrop cotton
indigo
rice
sea island cotton
tobacco
oppressed African Americans
linked to: Black Americans

enslaved Africans
reliedOn African-descended enslaved people
enslaved Africans
supported expansion of slavery
secession from the United States
states’ rights ideology
timePeriod 18th century
antebellum period
colonial era
usedLaborSystem racial chattel slavery

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Cato’s Conspiracy opposedBy South Carolina planters
Broughton family partOf South Carolina planter aristocracy
linked to: South Carolina planters
Miles Brewton (by kinship) associatedWith South Carolina planter aristocracy
linked to: South Carolina planters