GROUPS OF REAL PROPERTY HOLDERS
Nevertheless, the possessors of property were susceptible of classification into several rather marked groups, though of course they shade off into one another by imperceptible gradations. Broadly speaking, there were the interests of real and personal property. Here, however, qualifications must be made. There was no such identity of interest between the large planters and the small inland farmers of the south as existed in England between the knights and yeomen, The real property holders may be classified into three general groups: the small farmers, particularly back from the sea-cost, scattered from New Hampshire to Georgia, the manorial lords, such as we find along the banks of the Hudson. And the slaveholding planters of the south