An American history . he centerof Southern hfe. The aristocracy all possessed varied greatly in extent, however. The number of hisslaves was the best gauge of a mans wealth, and there is recordof some sixty-seven famihes each of which owned more thanthree hundred slaves. The total number of families owning ahundred slaves or more was reported in the census of 1850as 1733. However, these great slaveholders were a compara-tively small portion of the conmiunity. More than half ofthe slaveholders owned less than five slaves each. The censusof 1850 shows that in most of the Souther
An American history . he centerof Southern hfe. The aristocracy all possessed varied greatly in extent, however. The number of hisslaves was the best gauge of a mans wealth, and there is recordof some sixty-seven famihes each of which owned more thanthree hundred slaves. The total number of families owning ahundred slaves or more was reported in the census of 1850as 1733. However, these great slaveholders were a compara-tively small portion of the conmiunity. More than half ofthe slaveholders owned less than five slaves each. The censusof 1850 shows that in most of the Southern states less than a 1 In some states there were educational qualifications and as late as 1842Rhode Island still restricted the suffrage to property holders. What is knownas the Dorr Rebellion was a p)etty insurrection in Rhode Island to seciiremanhood suffrage. Though tha rebellion was suppressed, the recognizedauthorities soon adopted the views of the rebels and abolished property quali-fications for the ngjtude Un^ West ^^m m Greenwich
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