Huff Po; Paula Deen in 2012, My great granddaddy shot himself when he no longer had his slaves

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6. My Mom's ancestry "fled" the Carolinas in the late 1850s

to Florida because there was little life beyond subsistency for poor white _______ under the slavery system; suicide was not an option. That was the beginnings of our antebellum Cracker lineage (and no doubt they saw the Civil War coming, too). Slavery was indeed a "peculiar" system.

Little is spoken of the pockets/regions of resistance to Confederate conscription and policies within the South.