cotton planter
Boll crop grower
A cotton planter is a farmer who grows cotton, historically associated with large-scale plantation agriculture in the American South before the Civil War.
The term often implies substantial landholdings and, in antebellum contexts, the use of enslaved labor: The cotton planters of Mississippi wielded enormous political influence.
A cotton planter is also a machine that sows cotton seeds.
- seedEmbryonic plant capsule
- harvestGathering mature crops
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- big houseInformal term for prison
- slave laborCoerced unpaid servitude
field · rows · row crop · soil · agriculture · cash crop · machinery · south · boll · picker · tobacco · landowner · crops · tenant · Deep South · gin · farm · delta
- plantation ownersslaveholder
- seedersseeder, seed drill, grain drill, transplanter, dibber
- colonistscolonists, settler, Pilgrims, colonials, colonist
cotton plantercotton picker
Device harvesting fiber bolls
combine harvester · harvesting machine · cotton gin · reaper
cotton planterslave
Owned human, forced laborer
field hand · sharecropper · cotton picker · plantation worker · bondsman
cotton, planter, cottons, cottony, cottoned, plant, plants, planted, planting