1 White people are more in evidence here, and farmer and hired labor replace to some extent the absentee landlord and rack-rented tenant.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VII 2 Formerly all tenants had some capital, and often considerable; but absentee landlordism, rising rack-rent, and failing cotton have stripped them well-nigh of all, and probably not over half of them to-day own their mules.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du BoisGet Context In VIII 3 Twenty had changed to fifteen and fifteen to ten, but there was no news of the absentee.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 4 True, there were absentees when Mr. Streatfield called his roll call in the church.
Between the Acts (1941) By Virginia WoolfGet Context In Unit 5 5 Until Prince Andrew settled in Bogucharovo its owners had always been absentees, and its peasants were of quite a different character from those of Bald Hills.
War and Peace(V4) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX