Planters, Yeoman, and Slaves in the South

by Emma Salino, Cristian Rodriguez, Morgan Smith and Ingrid Castillo

Planter Class

• Owned 20 or more slaves

• Thomas Dew"Order of Nature"

Yeoman Farmers

• Poor White Independent Farmers

• Owned very few slaves

• Cotton= Survival

• Jackson's Support

Slaves

• Cotton Vs. other Crops

• Why massive profit?

• Revolts

• Free Slaves - Bought their own freedom

• Denmark Vesey

• William Lloyd "No union with the slave owners"

Free Slaves

- Use of cities- Majority supports

minority- Heirs and rejectors- Stereotypes

Exception, not rule.

- Paternalism for "property"- Proslavery arguments- Subordinate: all women- "pièce de résistance"

Southern Paradise

• region location o southeast U.S

• region benefactors o meant for agriculture o cotton cash crop

Population Rate in the ol' South

• South's slave population surpasses the North's

• "Melting pot"

Southern Atmosphere

• "King Cotton's Reign" o slavery=profit o cotton gin

• foreign relationships o Britain and France