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Planters
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The upper crust of ante-bellum Southern society. Slaveholders owning 20 slaves or more. Above these were "great planters" owning 50 or usually more slaves, hiring an overseer if necessary.
Episcopalians, concentrated in Albemarle and Cape Fear regions. |
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Middle Class
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Next to planters in ante-bellum class structure. Slaveholders of 1-19 slaves. Many townspeople (though most of North Carolinians were country folk). Store and shopkeepers, ministers, doctors, lawyers. Some had social connections to planters. Still had time for leisure, many similarities with Northern middle class.
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Yeomen & Artisans
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Not considered middle class. Subsistance farmers, owned no slaves, but they owned their own land. Artisans owned no slaves or land, but they owned their tools. This group claims largest number of whites in ante-bellum NC.
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Poor Whites
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Owned no house or land, had to rent house and work for wages. Owned no slaves. Bad rap in press and literature for being "idle," and "lazy." Degraded by having to work for their living. Stigma of rampant alcoholism and disease. Moralistic devaluation.
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Frederick Law Olmstead
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Landscape architect, writer. From NY. traveled through the South and wrote a book about how awful it was in 1856. Reported the poor conditions whites were living in in NC. Said that North Carolinians were uneducated and ignorant.
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