Most southern farmers owned no slaves
here is the answer, Because the owners are losing money on tenant farmers. If I am wrong comment down below
In chapter 5 for The Grapes Of Wrath, the owners of the land suggest the tenant farmers to move to California.
Middle Class grew during the Industrial Revolution, skilled workers, professionals, business people, wealthy farmers, factory owners, shippers, merchants, factory owners, merchants and bankers grew wealthier than the landowners, and the aristocrats.
Wealthy Class.
Work the land to pay the rent.
Yes, Quakers were wealthy land owners who live in the southern colonies.
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Most of them were wealthy, religious, plantation owners.
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Rich white plantation owners and they're control of slaves and cotton.
small farmers formed the majority of the southern population, the planters controlled much of the south's economy.
They were more than farmers they owned vast amounts of land and slaves. The growth of cotton after the invention of the cotton gin added more money to the coffers of the wealthy and tobacco was another crop that gave vast wealth. There were poor farmers in the south as well , but the plantation owners controlled the south and held positions of power.
Up top it was the wealthy land/ plantation owners that had acres of land. Then the small land owners After that the peasents Then the slaves
The majority of southern farmers in the United States before the Civil War were small farmers who owned few slaves or none at all. These farmers primarily grew food crops such as corn, wheat, and vegetables for their own consumption and for local markets. Only a small percentage of southern farmers owned large plantations worked by enslaved laborers.
No. The majority of people in the Southern Colonies were small farmers who did not own slaves and people who did not own land at all. The earliest plantation owners were in the minority and were mostly British in origin. Many white people were just as poor as the black slaves and many had to hire themselves out to do work for the wealthy land owners.
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