Slavocracy

A plantocracy is a ruling class, political order or government comprised of (or dominated by) plantation owners.

A number of early European colonies in the New World were largely plantocracies, usually consisting of a small European settler population relying on a large non-European chattel slave population (as well as indentured slaves, both European and non-European), and later, sharecroppers for labour. These plantocracies proved to be a decisive force in the antiabolitionist movement. One prominent organization largely representing (and collectively funded by) a number of plantocracies was the West Indies Lobby in the British Parliament. It is credited (or conversely, discredited) in constituting a significant impetus in dealying the Abolition of the Slave Trade from taking place in the 1790s to being implemented in 1806-1808; and likewise, with respect to prospects of Emancipation being proclaimed in the 1820s (instead, a policy known as Amelioration was formally adopted throughout 1823-1833), to being implemented in 1834-1838.