Check the 1850 & 60 Census for 'slave' owners...... Benton Co. had few slaves...to damn poor....Rushing's held most. 5 times the number were held in Henry Co.........same attitudes today as 150 years ago. Dave ================================================ At 02:22 PM 10/23/00 -0400, you wrote: >Message text written by INTERNET:[email protected] > >>there many plantations like in "Gone with the Wind"? Or were they mainly >just regular farmers. Poor to middle class; Middle Class?< > >Last year I sat in on a seminar given by a history professor who had made a >study of slave culture. One thing I remember was this- > >"If you were a slave you were most likely to be on a big plantation with >hundreds of slaves." > >"If you were a slave owner you were most likely lower middle class and >owned only one or two slaves." > >Put another way a lot of people had a few slaves but a few extremely >wealthy people owned a lot of slaves. He was speaking about the south as a >whole but I'd guess there weren't many very large plantations in the >Danville area. Certainly no sugar cane, rice and probably no big cotton >plantations. > Hope this helps HarryB > > >==== DanvilleCrossing Mailing List ==== >My family Coat of Arms ties at the back ...... >is that normal ??? >