A plantocracy, also known as a slavocracy, is a ruling class, political order or government composed 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 predominantly West African chattel slave population (as ...
government by plantation owners
• (n.) Government by planters; planters, collectively.
Plan·toc'ra·cy noun [ Planter + -cracy , as in democracy .] Government by planters; planters, collectively. [ R.]