Planters, Yeoman Farmers, & Slaves in the Cotton South
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Planters, Yeoman Farmers, and Slaves in the
Cotton South
1812-1861
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Planters (Plantation Owners)
-Elite => more land/slaves
- 1850
73% = 1-9
3% = 50+
24%= 10-49
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• Upper South, Chesapeake Bay Colonies= Virginia, Maryland and Delaware; Carolinas.
• "Black Belt"
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Paternalistic Notion: Master as the "Father"
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Yeoman FarmersPeople
Nancy Leigh Pierson -middle class whites
-didn't own slaves
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Yeoman Farmers
South -for planting corn & cotton
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Yeoman Farmers
Superiority due to the fact that they were white.
Self Reliant
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Slaves in the Cotton South
Frederick Douglass Nat TurnerDenmark Vesey
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Slaves in the Cotton South
• upper South (free blacks)
• Black Belt (western Georgia, Alabama, & Mississippi)
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Slaves in the Cotton South
• considered property
• no rights
• codes prevented blacks from reading