Meanings of old planter in English

The old planter had never heard that there was such a State.

But this old planter had a mortal antipathy to my side of the family.

Burns, a gruff old planter, interposed: "He had one enemy, once."

But, as an old planter said to me, "our people cannot realize yet that the negro is free."

His father lives in Georgia; he is a whole-souled old planter; has a good many slaves; but his property is much encumbered.

This morning I saw a poor old planter in Mr Robertson's office, who had been suddenly and totally ruined by this raid.

An old planter approached a table where his son, who did not know of his father's presence on the boat, was playing.

They had been stript of their wealth, though the kind old planter had never raised his hand against the government of his fathers.

The family, consisting of the old planter and his wife and his three daughters, two of them very beautiful, was secured in one room.

After relieving the old planter of twenty thousand dollars' worth of humanity, that is, fifty-two slaves, and the leather of his tannery, we reëmbarked.

There were the descendants of the great old planters, daring, immensely picturesque.

Dale changed this system, and the old planters were given land to cultivate for themselves.

In July, 1623, arrived sixty other settlers, and the old planters feared another period of starvation.

I used to stop at the old Planter's House, and I was there quite often during the war.

"Yes, we're up to our necks in melons," the old planter grumbled.

"The old planter knew we wanted you, so he did me no favors."