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Master and Slave: Typical White Southerner, a Modest Farmer, The
The typical white Southerner is not a great planter and slaveholder but a modest farmer. No doubt some non-slaveowning whites resent the planter elite, but overt opposition is rare because of the financial assistance they get from plantation owners ...
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Divergent Paths: Plantation Society of the South
The plantation is a uniquely American form of community for many white and black Southerners. The region is largely rural, dependent on such lucrative but labor-intensive crops as rice, sugar, cotton, and later tobacco. The fact that the hard physic...