The adventurous backwoods farmers who composed the great mass of the population in Tennessee, as elsewhere among and west of the Alleghanies, were not a slave-owning people, in the sense that the planters of the seaboard were.
This quote emphasizes that the majority of Tennessee's population were not slave owners like those on the seaboard.
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