Economically disadvantaged White people did not feel the same as enslaved people because they felt enslaved people were beneath them.
<h3>What was the attitude of poor White people to slavery?</h3>
Even though owning enslaved people was something that was limited to rich Whites, poor Whites in the South supported the practice.
This was as a result of the need for the Poor Whites to always feel in some sort of position of power over African Americans even if their lives weren't much better.
