Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The South in the Olden Time
The marked civilization which distinguished the South was not altogether due to slavery, but unquestionably it largely contributed to the creation and maintenance of certain social peculiarities which are rapidly disappearing. In proportion to the whole white population the slave holders were few in number, and Of those who owned slaves a very large majority owned only a few, from one to five. When slaves were held in numbers sufficiently large to give character to the plantation, some results were easily discovered. The estates were large and this necessitated overseers or subordinate managers, the con centration Of labor on a few crops, and prevented that desirable subdivision of land which improves agriculture and gives to a country an independent yeomanry. Fopu lation was sparse, roads were neglected, free schools could not be established, and the estates became a species Of baronies, where the lords Of the manor exercised an inferior government quite apart from the general civil jurisdiction.
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