The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Master's Theses 12-2014 Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830 Kevin Caldwell Grubbs University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses Part of the Social History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Grubbs, Kevin Caldwell, "Land Owners and Law Givers: Relations Between Yeomen and Planters in the South Carolina Back Country during the Early Republic, 1790-1830" (2014). Master's Theses. 72. https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/72 This Masters Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. T The University of Southern Mississippi LAND OWNERS AND LAW GIVERS: RELATIONS BETWEEN YEOMEN AND PLANTERS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA BACK COUNTRY DURING THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1790-1830 by Kevin Caldwell Grubbs A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate School of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Approved: Dr. Max Grivno_______________________ Committee Chair Dr. Louis Kyriakoudes_________________ Dr. Matthew Casey____________________ Dr. Karen Coates______________________ Dean of the Graduate School December 2014 ABSTRACT LAND OWNERS AND LAW GIVERS: RELATIONS BETWEEN YEOMEN AND PLANTERS IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA BACKCOUNTRY DURING THE EARLY REPUBLIC, 1790-1830 by Kevin Caldwell Grubbs December 2014 The society that fought the Civil War in the 1860s was slowly created through years of class conflict and cooperation between planters and yeoman farmers.