Generally the planter class hired tutors for the education of their children or sent them to private schools.

The planter class controlled the state legislatures and kept taxes low.

Taxes had been exceedingly low before the war because the planter class refused to support public programs such as education.

Political, economic, and social life in the 19th century was dominated by a European planter class.

Slavery supported the life of the planter class in Virginia.

Like most of the planter class, he was a slaveholder.

Consequently, the planter classes debated how best to respond.

It began operations in 1832 and favored the interests of the planter class.

Second, political power in the Southern states should pass from the planter class to his beloved "plebians".

These rural folk had a long-standing hostility toward the planter class.