Carolina's economy was built on large-scale agriculture, such as rice and indigo production, which required extensive labor. Aristocratic whites used enslaved Africans to cultivate and harvest crops, leading to Carolina's reliance on black slaves as a source of cheap labor. Additionally, the presence of slave labor allowed aristocratic whites to maintain their social and economic status through the profitability of their plantations.
Whites may have feared black slaves due to the perceived threat of rebellion or uprising, as well as fears of loss of control and power. Whites also may have viewed black slaves as different or inferior, leading to feelings of superiority and the need to maintain dominance through fear.
Around 75% of southern whites owned fewer than five slaves. The majority of white southerners owned no slaves at all, as slaves were primarily held by a small percentage of wealthy plantation owners.
Poor whites often saw slaves as competition for jobs and viewed them as undermining their economic prospects. This sometimes led to animosity between the two groups, as poor whites felt threatened by the availability of cheap labor provided by slaves. Additionally, the racial hierarchy of the time often made poor whites feel superior to slaves, despite their shared economic struggles.
Slaves were owned as property, had no rights, and were subjected to brutal living and working conditions. Poor whites, while still disadvantaged, had the potential to earn wages and had some basic legal rights as free individuals. Additionally, poor whites were not subject to the same level of dehumanization and exploitation that enslaved individuals experienced.
Most Southern whites, even if they didn't own slaves themselves, supported the slave system because they believed it reinforced their social status and economic well-being. They also perceived slaves as essential to the Southern economy and saw slavery as a fundamental part of their way of life and culture. Additionally, many non-slaveholding whites subscribed to the racial hierarchy that justified and maintained the institution of slavery.
A. Religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia.
South Carolina
South Carolina had a higher population of slaves than free whites in 1730.
Not at all. They were forced to become slaves and work for the whites.
South Carolina and Mississippi.
Because whites were armed and except in coastal South Carolina, outnumbered slaves.
Whites were armed and , except in coastal South Carolina, outnumbered slaves
because sc became a slaved state derfore black people had to work for whites and there were more black people than white
The whites who had slaves are all dead. Get over it.
Southern whites were reluctant to emancipate their slaves because slaves were their livelihood. Slaves did all the dirty work such as farming and house hold chores.
whites
ANSWER:Not all Whites in the South owned land, nor did they have slaves. Many Whites were just as poor as the Black slaves. Many had to hire themselves out to do work for the wealthy land owners.Some Whites were sharecroppers with powerful plantation owners. Of course the wealthy land owners would take advantage of the Whites, just as they did with their slaves.