In 1860, the largest number of white southerners

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According to census data from 1860, the largest number of white southerners were non-slaveholding yeoman farmers. They made up the majority of the white population in the South and owned small farms or worked as tenant farmers. Planters, who owned large plantations and numerous slaves, were a wealthy minority. The majority of white southerners did not own slaves at all, and many owned only a small number.

In 1860, the Largest Number of White Southerners