"A renter had no chance to save anything," remonstrated William Beard, "slave holders were the only men that could make enough money to do anything."
William Eskew complained that "Th[e]re was no chance for a young foreman for his wages was so low... [He Was] discouraged by the Slaveholders."
George V. Payne even accused the planter class of keeping the poor down "so they could make slaves of them,” and A.J. Ferrell wrote with bitterness: "if [the wealthy] had not owned slaves as a working man I... could have secured better wages."
Fred A Bailey, “Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation,” The Journal Of Southern History Volume LI, No.1 (February 1985): 36.
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