Аннотация

Explores the problems of the agrarian evolution of the Pre-Civil War South. Shows the heterogeneity of the region which consisted of plantations and farm districts. Two Southern subregions were moving in different directions. The Upper South was turning into the farm area and came nearer to the North. It was proved by the share of slaves in the population, and by the average number of acres to each farm. The Lower South developed within the framework of the slave plantation economy and was the initiator of the Secession. The question who — plantator or farmer — dominated in the Southern economy is closely connected to the question of the diversity of Southern farms. The "slave farms" were integrated into slave plantation system which played the leading role in the Southern agriculture.