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Often condemned as renegades, or “scalawags,” southern white Republicans typically came from the yeoman, or poor, white classes, from the nonslaveholding upland districts, or from business interests anxious to transform the southern economy.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Suffering was greatest in towns without food supplies and in nonslaveholding areas where blacks were not available to replace absent farmers.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Even in cotton-growing areas, nonslaveholding farmers grew significantly smaller crops of cotton and larger crops of corn than pure business logic would dictate, indicating that safety-first farming still ruled the economic strategies of yeomen.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

A lifelong Democrat, Johnson proudly represented the nonslaveholding yeomen of the upland South and denounced the region’s elite as antirepublican aristocrats.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The competition, and its injurious consequences, will, one day, array the nonslaveholding white people of the slave states, against the slave system, and make them the most effective workers against the great evil.

From My Bondage and My Freedom by Douglass, Frederick