An American history . ngjtude Un^ West ^^m m Greenwich. THE UNITED STATES ^ in 1850 Sectional Boundary THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 387 third of all the white families held slaves.^ Some of the non-slaveholders were prosperous farmers; some were dependentsof the slaveholders; while the great mass of them, known as poor whites, occupied a place in society similar to that of thepeasantry in Europe. They were poor, ilHterate, and hadgreat difficulty to make a livelihood. 551. Feeling of the Sections. The last word descriptiveof the country as it was about 1850 should deal with the feel-in
An American history . ngjtude Un^ West ^^m m Greenwich. THE UNITED STATES ^ in 1850 Sectional Boundary THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 387 third of all the white families held slaves.^ Some of the non-slaveholders were prosperous farmers; some were dependentsof the slaveholders; while the great mass of them, known as poor whites, occupied a place in society similar to that of thepeasantry in Europe. They were poor, ilHterate, and hadgreat difficulty to make a livelihood. 551. Feeling of the Sections. The last word descriptiveof the country as it was about 1850 should deal with the feel-ing of the sections toward each other. In general, it wasbitter. Unfortunately there was little intercourse betweenNorth and South, and neither section knew nor understoodthe other. This ill-will of the sections was aggravated bythe violent propaganda of the abolitionists.^ Furthermore, theabolitionists maintained what was known as the under-ground railroad — a secret system for aiding slaves to es-cape from their masters, cross the free states, and t
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