The slaveholding politicians acted as political leaders in the antebellum southern society, while the nonslaveholding White mass played a submissive role in politics.

• 在内战前的南部政治世界中，在总体上奴隶主政治人物担当着领导角色，广大非奴隶主大众是奴隶主在政治活动中的附庸。