Examples of plain folk of the Old South in the following topics:
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- The "Plain Folk of the Old South" were a middling class of white farmers
who occupied a social rung between rich planters and poor whites.
- The "Plain Folk of the Old South" were white subsistence farmers who
occupied a social rung between rich planters and poor whites in the Southern United
States before the Civil War.
- The nostalgic view of the South
emphasized the elite planter class of wealth and refinement who controlled large
plantations and numerous slaves.
- The major challenge to the view of planter dominance came from historian
Frank Lawrence Owsley's book, Plain Folk of the Old South (1949).
- The religion, language, and
culture of these common people comprised a democratic "Plain Folk"
society.
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- The term Plain Folk of the Old South refers to the middling class of white farmers in the Southern United States before the Civil War, who occupied a rung between the rich planters and the poor whites.
- Plain Folk of the Old South is the title of a 1949 book by Vanderbilt University historian Frank Lawrence Owsley, who adhered to the Southern Agrarians school of thought among historians of the South.
- The major challenge to the view of planter dominance came from historian Frank Lawrence Owsley in Plain Folk of the Old South (1949).
- Historian Orville Vernon Burton described Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South, as "one of the most influential works on southern history ever written. "
- The religion, language, and culture of these common people created a democratic "plain folk" society.
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- In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classified white society into three groups: the poor, the yeoman middle class (also called the plain folk of the Old South), and the elite.
- Wetherington (2005) argues that the plain folk (of Georgia) supported secession in the name of their families, homes, and notions of white liberty.
- During the war, the established patriarchy continued to control the home front and keep it functioning, even though growing numbers of plain folk joined the new wartime poor.
- Plain-folk concepts of masculinity help to explain why so many men enlisted; they wanted to be worthy of the privileges of men, including the affections of female patriots.
- During Reconstruction, plain folk viewed freedmen as the greatest affront and most humiliating symbol of Yankee victory.
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- The Impending Crisis of the South was a strong attack on slavery as an inefficient institution for the United States' society and economy.
- Furthermore, Helper claimed to write on behalf of the Southern whites who were poor or of moderate means (the "Plain Folk of the Old South"), whom he claimed were oppressed by a small, but politically dominant, aristocracy of wealthy slaveowners intent on preserving an elitist socio-economic system.
- "Freesoilers and abolitionists are the only true friends of the South; slaveholders and slave-breeders are downright enemies of their own section.
- An abridged version of The Impending Crisis of the South appeared in July 1859, which diluted some of Harper's confrontational rhetoric.
- In the South, however, The Impending Crisis of the South was met with outright hostility and resistance; some states even banned its publication and sale.
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- It was most prevalent in the antebellum South where it was
seen as an integral component of the booming agricultural economy, and by
extension, central to the health of the U.S. economy overall.
- Historians have long debated the impact of the middling class
of white farmers (sometimes referred to as the "Plain Folk of the Old South") on the political/ideological
conflict over slavery.
- The Plain Folk were subsistence farmers, commonly
referred to as "yeomen," who owned land but few or no slaves.
- Though the Plain
Folk did not rely upon slavery as an institution in the same way upper-class planters
did, they tended to share in a distinctive Southern political ideology that
blended localism, white supremacy, and Jeffersonian ideas of agrarian
republicanism.
- By 1810, 4 percent of African Americans in the South and 75
percent in the North were free.
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- The terms "folk music" and "pop music" also have more than one meaning.
- The folk music of a culture is the music that is passed down from one generation to the next, often without writing it down.
- Since ancient times, folk music has been the music of ordinary people, not the ruling class or professional musicians.
- Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones.
- As the rise of recording pushed aside traditional music, some musicians made a point of recording traditional folk songs, so they would not be lost altogether.
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- Antebellum society in the South consisted of a class of wealthy plantation-owners, a middle class of yeomans, poor whites, and slaves.
- In his study of Edgefield County, South Carolina, Orville Vernon Burton classified white society into the poor, the yeoman middle class, and the elite.
- Based on a system of plantation slavery, the social structure of the South was far more stratified and patriarchal than that of the North.
- Second, free small farmers in the South often embraced hysterical racism, making them unlikely agents of internal democratic reforms in the South.
- Furthermore, whites of varying social castes, including poor whites and "plain folk" who worked outside or on the periphery of the market economy (and who therefore lacked any real economic interest in the defense of slavery) might nonetheless be linked to elite planters through extensive kinship networks.
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- From approximately 1000-500 BCE, the development of iron axes and
ploughs enabled the Indo-Aryans to settle the thick forests on the western
Ganges Plain.
- This agricultural expansion led to an increase in trade and competition
for resources, and many of the old tribes coalesced to form larger political
units.
- This continued into what became the Indo-Greek
Kingdom, which covered various parts of South Asia and was centered mainly in modern
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- The Ganges Plain is supported by the Indus and Ganges river systems.
- The Indo-Aryans settled various parts of the plain during their migration and the Vedic Period.
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- The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South is a book written by American historian John W.
- Published in 1972, it is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved.
- The importance of The Slave Community as one of the first studies of slavery from the perspective of the slave was recognized by historians.
- "African survivals" persisted in the form of folk tales, religion and spirituality, music and dance, and language .
- Many of the folk tales told by slaves have been traced by African scholars to Ghana, Senegal, and Mauritania, and to peoples such as the Ewe, Wolof, Hausa, Temne, Ashanti, and Igbo.
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- The Jeffersonians believed in democracy and equality of political opportunity, especially for the yeoman farmer and the plain folk.
- The Jeffersonians believed in democracy and equality of political opportunity (for white male citizens), with a priority for the yeoman farmer and the plain folk.
- The Jeffersonian conception of the yeoman farmer as the model republican citizen developed under a rising fear that the aggressive Federalist promotion of industry and commerce would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers dependent on others for income and sustenance (the antithesis of the independent, republican citizen).
- This achievement occurred in the form of the Louisiana Purchase under Jefferson, the largest land deal in the history of the United States.
- The above population density map of the American Colonies in 1775 is reflective of the agricultural nation in which Jefferson promoted his Agrarian Policy.