Virginia planter class

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elite landed gentry social class

The Virginia planter class was the wealthy, slaveholding elite of colonial and early American Virginia who dominated the region’s politics, economy, and social life through large tobacco plantations and inherited landholdings.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Virginia colonial elite	1
Virginia planter aristocracy	1
Virginia planter class canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	elite ⓘ landed gentry ⓘ social class ⓘ
country	Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ
culture	Anglo-Virginian gentry culture ⓘ
declinedBecauseOf	abolition of slavery after the American Civil War ⓘ soil exhaustion and economic change ⓘ
declinedDuring	19th century ⓘ
derivedWealthFrom	slave labor ⓘ tobacco exports ⓘ
dominated	House of Burgesses NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia General Assembly NERFINISHED ⓘ regional economy of Virginia ⓘ social life of Virginia gentry ⓘ
economicBase	cash-crop agriculture ⓘ tobacco plantations ⓘ
educationPattern	private tutoring ⓘ study in Britain for some sons ⓘ
included	First Families of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Jefferson family NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee family NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph family NERFINISHED ⓘ Washington family NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	politics of colonial Virginia ⓘ politics of early United States ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
laterReligion	Episcopal Church NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Colony of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia ⓘ surface form: Commonwealth of Virginia
owned	enslaved African Americans ⓘ enslaved Africans ⓘ extensive landholdings ⓘ large plantations ⓘ
partOf	Southern planter class ⓘ slaveholding elite of the American South ⓘ
politicalOrientation	leadership in American Revolution ⓘ support for colonial self-government ⓘ
practiced	primogeniture and entail (in colonial period) ⓘ
produced	many Founding Fathers of the United States ⓘ several early U.S. presidents ⓘ
religion	Anglicanism (Church of England) NERFINISHED ⓘ
socialPractice	paternalistic ideology toward enslaved people ⓘ patriarchal household structure ⓘ
socialStatus	gentry ⓘ wealthy elite ⓘ
timePeriod	18th century ⓘ colonial era ⓘ early American republic ⓘ
usedLaborSystem	racial chattel slavery ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Randolph → isAssociatedWith → Virginia planter class ⓘ

Bartholomew Dandridge → memberOf → Virginia planter class ⓘ

this entity surface form: Virginia colonial elite

Anne Aylett → memberOf → Virginia planter class ⓘ

this entity surface form: Virginia planter aristocracy