History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1697 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Landless Majority
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The idea
Below the yeomen were poor, landless White people, who made up the majority of southern Whites.
In practice
Landless men serving as slave overseers, drivers and traders.
Where people slip
Owning land and enslaved people was, the anchor says, one of the only opportunities for upward social and economic mobility available to them.
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