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In the Northern United States, practically all the farms were operated by yeoman farmers as family farms. Thomas Jefferson was a leading advocate of the yeomen, arguing that the independent farmers formed the basis of republican values. [51] Indeed, Jeffersonian Democracy as a political force was largely built around the yeomen. [52]
Plain Folk of the Old South is a 1949 book by American Vanderbilt University historian Frank Lawrence Owsley, one of the Southern Agrarians.In it he used statistical data to analyze the makeup of Southern United States of America society, contending that yeoman farmers made up a larger middle class than was generally thought.
The name Yeoman was chosen for its historic use for those who owned lands; BAY was formed the help farmers. [2] The Supreme Conclave was its governing body. Its officers were the grand foreman, the grand master, the chief correspondent, and the grand master of accounts. [3] Its lodges or branches were called "Homesteads".
This led to a sharp division in class in the southern states, between the landowning "master" class, yeoman farmers, poor whites, and slaves; while in the northern and western states, much of the social spectrum was dominated by a wide range of different laboring classes.
By contrast, farmers in the Upland South cultivated land for subsistence, and few held slaves. The Upland South's population has mainly Scots-Irish and English ancestry. Because settlers were chiefly yeoman farmers , many upland areas did not support the Confederate cause during the American Civil War (see Andrew Johnson ).
A yeoman was a member of an English social class, generally a freeman who owned his own farm. The term was also used in North America. The term was also used in North America. Yeoman or yeomen may also refer to:
The crop-lien system was a way for farmers, mostly Black, to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value of anticipated harvests. Local merchants provided food and supplies all year long on credit; when the cotton crop was harvested farmers turned it over to the merchant to pay back their debt.
In other parts of the state, the soil supported only subsistence farming. Most of the yeoman farmers owned few or no slaves. By 1860 the investment and profits in cotton production resulted in planters holding 435,000 enslaved African Americans, who made up 45% of the state's population.