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| Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 06:17 PM EDT |
No. They were not. One
reason things used to work better is
precisely because everyone was more or
less a farmer, some with bigger farms
than others. I think you could say they
were middle class. Slavery resulted in
wealth, sadly, in the South eventually.
George Washington was a military guy, who was
from a family of means, meaning they had a tobacco plantation. Jefferson worked
as a lawyer. His father was a surveyor and his mom was the daughter of a sea
captain. Not silver spoon stuff. He started out
so poor when he brought his wife home after
the honeymoon, she cried when she saw the
house. He did inherit land from someone and that made him
comfortable, not rich. That's all. John Adams was a lawyer too. Not a
corporate lawyer like some we've seen. Just a guy. James Madison's father had
inherited
money, in the sense of land, and he became
a Congressman as a young guy. John Hancock was
the son of a reverend, not rich.
I don't know where some of you get your ideas, but
you might want to check them to see if they're
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