cotton-planter

The commonly received view of the position of the cotton-planter is that he is in a chronic state of debt.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

The aspect of the whole country was wild and forbidding, save to the eye of a cotton-planter.

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Then, down the entire length of the ridge the cotton-planter had followed, its two little wheels straddling the row, while the small bull-tongue in front opened the shallow furrow for the linty, furry, white seeds to fall in and be covered immediately by the mold-board behind.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

He must be a large cotton-planter, one of a class with whom a fondness for jewels serves as

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

The old and typical Southern gentleman developed as cotton-planter had nothing to teach or to give, except warning.

Treason (1860–1861) 1918

Influenced by their representations, the cotton-planter readily wrote a free pass and recommendation, to which the cow-drovers affixed their marks.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

"But what made you a cotton-planter, my son?" she asked.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900

Northern manufacturer needed a tariff on imported goods to protect him from European competition; the Southern cotton-planter who purchased much of his supplies abroad was hurt by the tariff.

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

-- The great enemies of the cotton-planter are the cotton boll weevil, the bollworm and the leaf worm; but other insects inflict serious damage.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

Several are successful farmers, and one of the girls is a large cotton-planter and general farmer.

Tuskegee & Its People: Their Ideals and Achievements Booker T. Washington 1885