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What Was The Jefferson's Vision Of White Yeoman Farmer

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The Jeffersonian vision of white farmers on a self-sufficient farm, was that the settlement of new U.S. territories entailed white yeoman farmers single-handedly carving out small independent farms (pg. 333). The slaves labored to build the cotton kingdom, and they started by clearing the land. (pg. 333). The slaves would take an axe and they would strip the vegetation of an entire old-growth forests and cypress swamps. After the land was cleared, the slaves would plow the land and plant. Most of the time the slaves were expected to work ten acres of land, with rows three to five feet apart They had to weed, which took a lot of energy and time. When it was time to pick, the slaves were expected to pick two hundred pounds of cotton a day. The
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