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The Yeoman Farmer and Westward Expansion of U.S. Cotton Production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

James D. Foust
Affiliation:
Indiana University

Extract

In spite of the recognized difficulties of dividing the white population of the antebellum South into two distinct classes—slaveowners and poor whites—historians have persisted in differentiating the roles of the small slaveholder and nonslaveholder vis-à-vis that of the large slaveholder or plantation owner. It is the purpose of this dissertation to evaluate the roles of the nonslaveholding and small slaveholding farmer in comparison with that of the large slaveholder in the westward expansion of the antebellum cotton economy.

Type
Obstacles to Economic Growth: Papers presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1967

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