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Social Structure In A Nation Of Nations

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Davidson feels that people valued social structure in the book, Nation of Nations, while Zinn believes people were scared of fraternalism and made social class drama in the novel, A People’s History of the United States. First, Davidson felt that the people valued social structure and at the top of the classes of the Old South were the slave owners. On average, only one white southerner in four belonged to a slave owning family, and fewer than two percent were members of a wealthier planter class. Next, most slaveowners owned only just a few slaves. With its elegant homes and strong sense of family, the refined plantation society of the Tidewater, was much different from the society found on the cotton frontier, where planters often lived

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