- Absentee Owner:
A plantation or estate owner who did not live on their property and manage it directly (they hired a manager) - Overseer :
Someone who keeps watch over and directs the work of others. On a plantation this would be the manager who was paid a wage to organise the work of the slaves. - Plantation :
A large area of farmland, or estate, planted with particular crops - Planter:
A person who owns or manages a plantation - Plantocracy :
The settlers who developed plantations in the Caribbean into successful businesses; the name combines their local rank and the status to which they aspired - Slave colony :
A settlement on plantations, based on the labour of enslaved Africans | | |