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“The plantation economy had no room for poor whites; the proprietor or over-seer, a physician on the more prosperous plantations, possibly their families, these were sufficient. “If a state,” wrote Weston, “could be supposed to be made up of continuous plantations, the white race would be not…” quote by Eric Williams
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““The plantation economy had no room for poor whites; the proprietor or over-seer, a physician on the more prosperous plantations, possibly their families, these were sufficient. “If a state,” wrote Weston, “could be supposed to be made up of continuous plantations, the white race would be not merely starved out, but literally squeezed out.”105 The””

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