Who Were Yeoman Farmers in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

Who were yeoman farmers in the mid-eighteenth century?

A) freed African-American slaves who owned their own farms
B) white farmers in the North who owned slaves to help work the fields
C) young farmhands who worked with older farmhands, much like apprentices
D) small landowners who usually farmed their own land and did not own slaves
E) slaves who worked on large cotton plantations in the South