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The slave social ladder: look at the caste systems in India
At the bottom of the social pyramids peasants and slaves are at the bottom.
the bottom
A rung is a level on a ladder, but in a social sense, this word is usually used to say someone is on the "bottom rung", meaning, the bottom of the social ladder, lowest of the low. Someone who does not matter at all.
The slaves were the poorest and the lowest
the slaves and the farmers
At the top of the Spanish-American society were the peninsulares or europeos.Creoles were below the peninsulares. Below that were the mestizos. Next were the native americans, and the enslaved free blacks, and slaves were at the bottom of the social ladder.
the slaves because there at the bottom of the social pyramid
Yes, there was a social hierarchy in many historical societies, with various levels of power, influence, and privilege. This hierarchy often placed rulers or nobility at the top, followed by clergy, merchants, artisans, and peasants or laborers at the bottom. Social status was typically inherited and influenced an individual's opportunities and treatment within society.
As a social class, it was the farmers. Within that group, serfs again ranked lower than freeholders.
In the early years of the United States, Virginia Colony and Maryland Colony relied on the tobacco industry for economic growth. Their social structures were based on slavery. They had slaves to work in the tobacco fields as well as slaves to help run households. The more slaves a person owned, the higher they were on the social ladder.
Society was a caste-like system with poor whites at the bottom of the white social ladder.