Jamaican society was structured hierarchically along color lines.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
All material interests, all ambitious passions, were hierarchically arranged under one leader, who, after having sacrificed liberty by establishing absolute power, destroyed equality by introducing nobility.
"History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814"
F. A. M. Miguet
They said that they were really bound as cadines, according to Turkish custom, to pay their respects to my uncle's wife, "whom her position as legitimate spouse places hierarchically above us."
"French and Oriental Love in a Harem"
Mario Uchard