J. D. B. DE BOW

This concept was one of the main selling points that the Southern leadership used to invest poor whites in the Confederate cause. The poor white, no matter how bad off he’s was, cold always see himself above the Negroes who were fit for being a servant while he was above that. See Jefferson Davis Quotation

The Souther politicians sold their poorer people on a notion of Trickle Down whereby they could be much better off in a slave society than with abolition as in the North. They managed that despite that fact that the standard of living in the North for the poor was generally much better than that of the South and there was certainly more possibility of social and economic mobility. One of the other points which De Bow himself had a part in selling (See Quotation 643677) was that under a slave society the poor white was not at the bottom of the society while he would be without slavery.

This concept was one of the main selling points that the Southern leadership used to invest poor whites in the Confederate cause. The poor white, no matter how bad off he’s was, cold always see himself above the Negroes who were fit for being a servant while he was above that. See Jefferson Davis Quotation

The Souther politicians sold their poorer people on a notion of Trickle Down whereby they could be much better off in a slave society than with abolition as in the North. They managed that despite that fact that the standard of living in the North for the poor was generally much better than that of the South and there was certainly more possibility of social and economic mobility. One of the other points which De Bow himself had a part in selling (See Quotation 643677) was that under a slave society the poor white was not at the bottom of the society while he would be without slavery.