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small d--as a dangerous thing.
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It was a threat to hierarchy
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and the South became quite
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distinctively a very hierarchical society
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more on that in just a second.
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It became a hierarchical society rooted very deeply
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in open conceptions of class and
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obviously open conceptions of race.
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Some were born to rule.
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In the overall attitude of the planter class
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and the leadership class
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of the American South by the 1840s and 1850s,