Yeoman farmers
Yeoman farmers
Southern Tenant Farmers Union was created in 1934.
Farmers' Alliance
Most southern farmers owned no slaves
The web address of the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum is: http://stfm.astate.edu
Farmers Alliance Southern Farmers Alliance The Grange
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and it helped southern farmers pick seeds from their cotton.
The phone number of the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum is: 870-487-2909.
Andrew Jackson received the most support from Southern Farmers in the 1824 election.
The majority of southern farmers in the United States before the Civil War were small farmers who owned few slaves or none at all. These farmers primarily grew food crops such as corn, wheat, and vegetables for their own consumption and for local markets. Only a small percentage of southern farmers owned large plantations worked by enslaved laborers.
The Farmers Alliance was formed to try to help farmers to become profitable again after the Civil War. The Southern Farmers Alliance, unlike the other alliances in the north and the mid-west excluded black farmers from their organization. This exclusion led to African American farmers making an alliance of their own.
These farmers are often called truck farmers.