英语词汇plantocracy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

plantocracy. A historical name, based on aristocracy, for the class of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War, especially in South Carolina, where their huge plantations grew cotton, indigo, and rice as their major crops. Many of the “plantocracy” or “planting aristocracy” made their money on rice, a packet of which Captain John Thurber, a Yankee shipmaster, had presented to one of the early settlers on putting into Charleston Harbor late in the 1680s. The settler planted this Madagascar rice rather than dining on it, and af- ter it sprouted, he gave seeds to his friends, who in turn raised rice on their fertile land. Charleston and the Carolina Low Country soon became the “Rice Coast,” rice fortunes building Charleston and marking the beginning of a plantoc- racy considered by many at the time to be the New World aristocracy.

词汇	plantocracy
词源	plantocracy. A historical name, based on aristocracy, for the class of wealthy Southern planters before the Civil War, especially in South Carolina, where their huge plantations grew cotton, indigo, and rice as their major crops. Many of the “plantocracy” or “planting aristocracy” made their money on rice, a packet of which Captain John Thurber, a Yankee shipmaster, had presented to one of the early settlers on putting into Charleston Harbor late in the 1680s. The settler planted this Madagascar rice rather than dining on it, and af- ter it sprouted, he gave seeds to his friends, who in turn raised rice on their fertile land. Charleston and the Carolina Low Country soon became the “Rice Coast,” rice fortunes building Charleston and marking the beginning of a plantoc- racy considered by many at the time to be the New World aristocracy.
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