There are still families who can trace their bloodlines back to Europe, England mainly. ... So the New Englanders produced farms that did not have much surplus for selling, they started to become fishermen. ... People were able to own farms and tend to them without much needed help. A family would mainly rely on the family's' own hands to tend to the farm, with the added help of extended family during harvest time or such, some people would even hire indentured servants, but not very often. ... Whereas the Southern people relied on the slaves, the middle colonies made due with ju...

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O"Connor was no stranger to the country for the reason that she did grow up in the south and on a 500 acre dairy farm (Charters, 1116). ... For example the Bailey family in" A Good Man Is Hard to Find", are Atlanta, Georgia natives. They are a middle class family, who has a grandmother that believes in herself as a true Christian. ...

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Separation of marriages and families in slave trade, sexual abuse of slave women, and the harsh treatment of the slaves in the fields, were just a few ways that slaves were mistreated. ... Most farmers in the south had no more than the twenty slaves on there plantation, these farms were only about 150-200 acres large. The owners of these plantation were not of great wealth, they lived modest lives and provided for there family, man did not even live in very nice homes at all. There was about 10,000 families that owned anywhere from fifty to a hundred slaves that worked hundreds of acres of lan...

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The Majority of Southerners owned smaller farms and "practiced subsistence farming, raising only enough food to feed their families" (Appleby 104). ... The agriculture was so great that "eighty percent of the labor force worked on the farm" (Pomaska 1). ...

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If the southern economy was based on farming and crops the move by many southerners to large farms and plantations was logical, the more crops you grow the more financially successful you are. ... The large farms owned by southerners needed many laborers to tend to their fields. ... Another way southern slave drivers used fear to make slaves work was by separating them from their families. ... One, it took them further away from their family as well as from the free north. ...

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There was a great amount of property damage done to farms, factories, and railroads. ... (Wood, pg.52) To ensure individual responsibility, the codes outlined apprenticeship and work regulations and the terms of contracts, marriages, and family relations. ... The laws were supposed to strengthen his sense of responsibility to both his family and his neighbors. ... "Racists found ways to circumvent the law and create other devices that made it difficult for the Freedman to vote or own farms of their own, devices such as Literacy tests, poll taxes, "grandfather clause", and eventual in...

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You might be able to take William Faulkner out of the South (as he, himself, attempted to do when he moved his family to England for a time), but you could never take the South out of William Faulkner. He lived it, breathed it and suffered for it as he carried with him all of his life the image of the once proud Southern aristocracy, of which his family had been esteemed members, disintegrated following the Civil War. ... The short story, "Barn Burning" was the story of an itinerant family of farm laborers moved from place to place after the violent pyromaniac father, Abn...

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Abner does not care for his children and only views them like farm animals, just there to help with the work. ... Janet Carey Eldred explains this well in the following lines, "Throughout "Barn Burning," Abner reiterates the importance of blood or family ties and of the power of family solidarity in the sharecropper system. ...

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They were in pursuit to try and make themselves and their families a better life. ... Native Americans lands were no longer to be broken up into individual farms, but would belong to a tribe as a whole. ... After the war ended Native Americans stopped receiving family allotments and wages. ...

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The battles only discouraged the Southern population as a whole because they took time away from the soldiers" families, farm time, and lives. Because they weren't able to stay home and support their families, thousands of wives and children experienced famine, especially as a result of Union barricades of Sou...

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July 10, 1875 in Maysville, South Carolina, Samuel and Pasty McLeod had a new addition to their family, a baby girl "born to former slaves a decade after the end of the Civil War" (Mary 1). ... Mary was born "on a rice and cotton farm and was the fifteenth of seventeen children, some of whom had been sold into enslavement" (Botsch 1). ... A white family employed Mary's mother. ...

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Even worse, farm incomes declined during the decade. ... During the Victorian Age of the late 1800's and early 1900's, women had been expected to center their lives on home and family. b. ... Family Life Changes a. ...

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Southern Pride: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Was there a purpose behind King's honorable humbleness and humility to those who so rudely besmirched his attempts at equality? To Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., hostility and spite were not ways of achieving his goals for equality. Instead of rashness a...

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Businesses began to recruit poor, white families from the country whom they would bring in to work for them. The labor of an entire white family was incredibly cheap, so blacks were not wanted. ... In America it states, "By 1890 most southern farms were worked by people who did not own the land" (845). ...

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While feeling that he was financially worthless to his family, he got permission from his father to setup his own forge. With the Revolutionary war going on at the time the was a shortage of basic building materials so in his forge he created nails with scrap metal thus creating a huge profit for him and his family. With this huge success he was able to provide an extra income for his family. ... Just as carding, spinning, and weaving machines made it profitable to produce large amounts of cloth in factories, the cotton gin made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms called p...

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