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The plantation owners
Life on plantationsMany plantations used African slaves for the hard labor, such as cotton, rice, indigo or tobacco.
they where very rich until the 13th amendment was signed (after the civil war) and southern plantation owners had to let their slaves free and did not have any help working on their plantations.
Sam Watkins was correct in saying that the Civil War was a rich man's war and a poor man's fight. There were more poor farmers fighting than rich plantation owners.
poor white southerners, plantation owners, and black southerners