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The Three White Classes of Antebellum North Carolina
Record #:
3147
Author(s):
Bolton, Charles C.
Abstract:
Three distinct classes made up antebellum white society: the upper class, or plantation owners who grew cash crops; yeoman farmers, who owned land and grew crops for subsistence and bartering; and poor whites who rented land.
Source:
Tar Heel Junior Historian
(NoCar F 251 T3x),
Vol. 36 Issue 1, Fall 1996
,
p
23, il
Subject(s):
Social classes--History--19th Century