Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country.

Journal of Social History | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

In this ambitious study of the political culture of the antebellum South Carolina Low Country, Stephanie McCurry argues that yeoman farmers found common cause with their planter neighbors in the shared experience of mastery. If wealthy planter men lorded it over their slaves, then poorer farmers dominated their wives and other dependents in a similar way. Republican ideology promised men independence, a status that was defined against both the slavery of African-Americans and the subordination of women. Evangelical Protestantism unified the planter and yeoman classes in defense ...

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