Manifest Destiny meant that the plains would be populated with yeoman farmers.
Most of the yeoman farmers owned few or no slaves.
Beyond the plantations yeoman farmers operated small holdings, sometimes with a slave or two.
For over 400 years the house was the home of the Webster family of yeoman farmers.
The yeoman farmers, the "little" men and women, made better recoveries from the initial state of bewilderment.
Whatever rhetoric he may have employed, Washington was no yeoman farmer.
On the other side of the agricultural coin were the small yeoman farmers.
While about a third of Southern families were slave owners, most were independent yeoman farmers.
Slaves and yeoman farmers carted off the goods by hand.
Dean hailed from a local family of yeoman farmers.