That they owned one or two slaves.
The number of southern planters was relatively small compared to the overall number of white southerners. Planters made up only a small percentage of the white population in the South, with the majority of white southerners being small farmers, laborers, or non-landowners.
In 'Farming', the leafy suburb in South West Wisconsin, 755 people are engaged.
Sharecropping was a form of agriculture in the South where landless farmers rented land and paid the landowner with a portion of the crops harvested. It often trapped farmers in cycles of debt and poverty due to exploitative agreements. Sharecropping played a significant role in perpetuating economic hardship for many African Americans after the Civil War.
Many small-scale farmers, especially in rural areas of the southern United States, practiced subsistence farming, which involves growing crops and raising animals for personal consumption rather than for commercial purposes. These farmers typically grew a variety of crops, such as corn, beans, and vegetables, and raised livestock like chickens and pigs to feed their families. Subsistence farming was common among lower-income families or those living in isolated areas without access to markets or resources for large-scale commercial agriculture.
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.
South Carolina
South Carolina
It was the landowning farmers
Yes
They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.
small farmers.
They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.
cash crops like rice tobacco and indigo
cash crops like rice tobacco and indigo
Yeoman farmers of the South could be found primarily in the upland regions of the southern states. They typically owned small to moderate-sized farms and worked the land themselves with the help of their families. Yeoman farmers played a critical role in the agricultural economy of the antebellum South.
Most farmers actually lived in the south.
It Favored Both The Interests Of The NorthAnd The South