What makes ideas about race so powerful that poor whites in the Old South seemingly ignored their own economic interests to support slavery and the disproportionate benefits it provided the relatively small number of planter elite? Lastly, include your own perspective – what other reasons can you think of that poor white planters would have continued to support slavery even though they did not benefit from it? Consider how class systems and social hierarchies are seen today.
Be sure to include in-text parenthetical citations with page numbers from the textbook each time you reference the readings. You can enter them at the end of the sentence but before the period like so (90). If you can find the book i loaded for the three sources I”ll give you 10 dollars a sources it will start on chapter 11 page 388. and if you don’t I’ll load pictures of the page’s to you just let me know.