History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1694 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Planter Elite
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The idea
The planter elite fell into two groups, the upper South's aristocratic gentry with generations of slaveholding behind them, and the Deep South's newly wealthy cotton planters.
In practice
Nathaniel Heyward, a South Carolina rice planter, enslaving more than eighteen hundred people in eighteen fifty.
Where people slip
His estate at his death in eighteen fifty-one was worth about two million dollars.
Your place on the trail
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