Southern Society 1850-1860

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Southern Society 1850-1860
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Planter Aristrocracy(about 1733 families)

• Owned 100 slaves
• considered themselves Cavaliers
• Had most of the Souths wealth

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Slaveowners(about 1.7M people)

• Most owned fewer than 10 slaves each

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Non-Slaveholding Whites(about 6 M)

• Subdivided into three groups

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Lowland Whites(most numerous)

• Mechanics, lesser tradesmen and cotton farmers
• They were the stoutest supporters of slavery

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Poor Whitesaka White Trash Crackers Clay
Eaters Hillbillies

• Often jobless
• included Drifters

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Mountain Whites

• Independent small farmers
• Located in the Appalachian Mt. valleys
• Disliked both the Planters and the Slaves
• Were very important to the Union cause

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Freedmen(about 250,000)

• Free Blacks
• Not popular in the North esp among the Irish

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Black Slaves

• 4 Million People