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A Small Place In Georgia: Yeoman Cultural Persistance, Terrence Lee Kersey
A Small Place In Georgia: Yeoman Cultural Persistance, Terrence Lee Kersey
History Theses
In antebellum Upcounty Georgia, the Southern yeomanry developed a society independent of the planter class. Many of the studies of the pre-Civil War Southern yeomanry describe a class that is living within the cracks of a planter-dominated society, using, and subject to those institutions that served the planter class. Yet in Forsyth County, a yeomanry-dominated society created and nurtured institutions that met their class needs, not parasitically using those developed by the planter class for their own needs.