Who makes up southern society prior to the civil war?

Southern Farmers

Explanation:

Most of the Southerners belonged to the Middle Class strata and were known as yeoman farmers, who had few acres of land and led a modest life in homes, raising chickens, and growing cotton and corn. Only few of these yeoman farmers had slaves that too only one or two.

the civil war is caused by a conflict of slavery between south and North

explanation:

i would have to say the women in the 1700 had the most rights because the men did not car about what they did in there time