plantation owners: grew crops for the market, as well as for home use. From the earliest days of the nation until the 1850s, cotton was the most important of all the market crops, not just from the South but from the entire nation.
yeoman:a class intermediate between the gentry and the labourers; a yeoman was usually a landholder but could also be a retainer, guard, attendant, or subordinate official.
Tenant farmers:
tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management.
rural poor:Rural poverty refers to poverty found in rural areas, including factors of rural society, rural economy, and rural political systems that give rise to the poverty found there.
Enslaved African Americans: African slaves helped build the new nation into an economic in the South.
Free African Americans:
many African-Americans were able to secure their freedom and live in a state of semi-freedom even before slavery was abolished by war.
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