The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequences : Four Periods of American History
The book The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequences : Four Periods of American History was written by author Herbert, Hilary A. (Hilary Abner), 1834-1919 Here you can read free online of The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequences : Four Periods of American History book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Abolition Crusade And Its Consequences : Four Periods of American History a good or bad book?
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303. IS4 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES holding agricultural classes of the South as *^poor whites/' thus distinguishing them from the slave-holders ; and the idea is cur- rent even now in that section that as a class the lordly slave-holder despised his poor white fellow-citizen. The average non- slave-holding Southern agriculturist, whether farming for himself or for others, was a type of man that no one who knew him, least of all the Southern slave-holder, his neighbor and political ally, could despis...e. Educated and uneducated, these people were inde- pendent voters and honest jurors, the very backbone of Southern State governments that always will be notable in history for efficiency, purity, and economy. This class of voters, however, came in for much abuse in the literature of the crusade. They were all lumped together as "poor whites," sometimes as "poor white trash," and the belief was inculcated that their im- perious slave-holding neighbors applied that term to them. "Poor white trash," on its face, is "nigger talk," caught up, doubtless, from Southern negro barbers and bootblacks, and used by writers who, from information thus derived, pictured Southern society.
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