LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Free African Americans
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Small farm owners
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Wealthy white Southerners
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Immigrants from Eastern Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -Yeomen were “self-working farmers, ” distinct from the elite because they worked their land themselves alongside any slaves they owned. Third, many small farmers with a few slaves and yeomen were linked to elite planters through the market economy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The yeoman farmer–later idealized by Thomas Jefferson and his political supporters–refers to the population of common people like these, who maintained small subsistence farms largely by family labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -yeoman, in English history, a class intermediate between the gentry and the labourers; a yeoman was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, guard, attendant, or subordinate official.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yeoman /ˈjoʊmən/ is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household.
Detailed explanation-5: -In Mississippi, yeoman farming culture predominated in twenty-three counties in the northwest and central parts of the state, all within or on the edges of a topographical region geographers refer to as the Upper Coastal Plain.