Spanish-American pupils, daughters of wealthy tobacco, sugar or coffee planters, were not infrequent at this and other convent schools around Baltimore, and Catherine knew enough of them not to yield so precipitately as had many girls to the romantic glamour cast around them by their coming from a strange land.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The planters are breaking away from the credit system which has kept them as borrowers and debtors and, as a result, they have money for investments elsewhere.
"History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)"
E. Benjamin Andrews
Some of the most outspoken and vehement of the Unionist Party bore, and were proud of, purely Irish names; many of the Nationalists were the bearers of names introduced into Ireland with the planters sent by King James.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry