Yeoman farmers didn't own slaves and they made up the largest group of whites in the south.
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For a large group of yeomen, independence and not wealth was important. Yeomen were small farmers who (60% owned their own farms) grew enough vegetables to feed their families,grew enough cotton each year to have little cash. They very high value yeomen placed on freedon grew directly from their own experience as self-sufficient properly owning farmers in small family-based communities, and from absolute, patriarchal control they exercised over their own wives and children.
Well Funnaly enough THEY DID going back to the Egypt times the slaves were actullay 98% farmers so therefore yes they did.
The European slave trade did not begin until the fifteenth century A.D. More than 10 million slaves were sold in Europe and the Americas over a period of about 400 years, Ancient African slaves were referred to as servants. They could marry, own property, or even own slaves of their own.