Date of Award
5-21-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
History
First Advisor
Glenn Eskew - Chair
Second Advisor
Wendy Venet
Abstract
In antebellum Upcounty Georgia, the Southern yeomanry developed a society independent of the planter class. Many of the studies of the pre-Civil War Southern yeomanry describe a class that is living within the cracks of a planter-dominated society, using, and subject to those institutions that served the planter class. Yet in Forsyth County, a yeomanry-dominated society created and nurtured institutions that met their class needs, not parasitically using those developed by the planter class for their own needs.
Recommended Citation
Kersey, Terrence Lee, "A Small Place in Georgia: Yeoman Cultural Persistance" (2009). History Theses. Paper 34.
http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/34
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