slaves

__**Yeoman Farmers**__
Most of the states farmers were considered yeoman farmers, which were people who people that worked the land that they or there neighbors owned. Yeoman farmers were friendly and organized their lives around three things: their families, the seasons, and thier neighborhoods. The men and women usually married at an early age because this means that you were officialy ready to start your own family. The weddings were simple and easy women were married in there late teens and the men were also. The "family" would have five or six kids because there was so much work that the kids could help with. The families would have a nice home and work subsistence farming, they would grow corn, wheat and oats. They would also have a spinning wheel for making cotton into clothes and other items needed they would also use flax, or wool to yarn with.

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Slaves were African Americans who had to work, most were worked in plantations which most slave men worked at most of the crops grown in these plantations were staple crops which were primarily cotton and tobbaco but somtimes they included grain.=====


 * Year || White || Slave || Total ||
 * 1830 || 492,86 || 245,601 || 737,987 ||
 * 1840 || 507,02 || 245,817 || 753,419 ||
 * 1850 || 580,91 || 288,548 || 860,039 ||
 * 1860 || 661,63 || 331,059 || 992,622 ||