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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"yeomen"”.
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Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830
<p>The society that fought the Civil War in the 1860s was slowly created through years of class conflict and cooperation between planters and yeoman farmers. The South Carolina backcountry developed during the decades of the Early Republic, reacting to the formative events of the nation during that …
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Gavelkind and the Land Market in Somerden Hundred, Kent, 1550-1700
… impact on the market in land, and the ability of yeomen to raise capital. It looks at land ownership, and whether the consequences of gavelkind were small plots and family decline as often suggested. The difficulty of sources has led in the past to a bias in the historiography in favour of …
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Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925
… described in texts as freeholders, leaseholders, yeomen, husbandmen, small farmers and peasants. Though copyhold owner-occupiers, farming their land were usually described as yeomen in the Holderness court rolls, this thesis has avoided the subject of small farmers and their demise - a topic which …
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Thomas Sumter's Law: Slavery In the Southern Backcountry During the American Revolution
… as a lure for Revolutionary Era backcountry yeomen. The vast majority of privates recruited by Sumter showed no prior long term service, and individuals traveled from North Carolina and even Virginia to enlist for ten months in the South Carolina State Troops. Thomas Sumter successfully …
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The Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne in the Sixteenth Century
… Some strangers, gentlemen, craftsmen, and yeomen also participated in the hosting trade. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the armed rebellions of the English Roman Catholic nobles the principal hostmen used their capital, political power, and religious connections to acquire the …
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Marching masters: slavery, race, and the Confederate Army, 1861-1865
Many historians have examined the Civil War soldier, but few scholars have explored the racial attitudes and policies of the Confederate army. Although Southern men did not fight for slavery alone, the defense of the peculiar institution, and the racial control they believed it assured, united …