Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, & the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country by Stephanie McCurry reexamines the political relationships between the politically powerful minority of white planters and the marginalized majority of small farm yeoman. This study is conducted through the experience of St. John’s Parish in Beaufort South Carolina, but she does occasionally use sources outside the parish for greater context and to strengthen her argument to apply to more of South Carolina and slave states in general.
Although these two groups of freemen were often at odds with each other in the public sphere they were united in their pursuit for ultimate dominion over and sovereignty of their
Although these two groups of freemen were often at odds with each other in the public sphere they were united in their pursuit for ultimate dominion over and sovereignty of their