History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1699 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hundley's Southern Yeomen
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The idea
D. R. Hundley, a Harvard-trained lawyer from an Alabama slaveholding family, published Social Relations in Our Southern States in eighteen sixty.
In practice
His argument that the southern yeomanry formed a distinct middle class, as intelligent as northern farmers.
Where people slip
He recorded that although not financially invested in slavery as a class, the southern yeomanry were almost unanimously pro-slavery in sentiment.
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