sugar baron
Cane plantation tycoon
A sugar baron is a wealthy landowner or businessman who made a fortune in the sugar industry, especially during the colonial era of plantation agriculture in the Caribbean, Louisiana, or Hawaii.
The term carries connotations of immense wealth built on slave or exploited labor: The old mansion was built by a sugar baron in the 1850s.
Like other "baron" compounds (oil baron, railroad baron), it suggests someone who dominated an industry and wielded considerable economic and political power.
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- plantation houseGrand home on farmland
- molassesSyrup from cane processing
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- tropical islandWarm-climate landmass surrounded by ocean
wealth · cane · harvest · slave labor · colonial · magnate · estate · rum · cash crop · white gold · slaves · indentured servants · tropics · tycoon · refinery · Cuba · Haiti · mansion
- tycoonsoil tycoon, tycoons, railroad tycoon, John Rockefeller, magnates
- sugar plantationsugarcane, cane field, cane fields, plantation, cane cutters
- sugarcanesugarcane, cane juice, cane field, bagasse, billets
- haciendashacienda, estancia, finca, rancho, encomienda
- colonial ranksviceroy, colonial administrator, lieutenant governor, resident
sugar baronsubsistence farmer
Grower producing for household consumption
peasant farmer · smallholder · sharecropper · tenant farmer · yeoman farmer
sugar baronplantation slave
Enslaved agricultural laborer
field hand · cane cutter · indentured servant · coolie · peon
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