Young men of the ante bellum South looked forward to professions of law,
medicine and the ministry, or to running a plantation; their sons now found clerking a
gentlemen’s trade. The Atlanta Journal Constitution said that nine out of every
ten young men in the southern towns were going into the business of clerking.
Young men of the ante bellum South looked forward to professions of law,
medicine and the ministry, or to running a plantation; their sons now found clerking a
gentlemen’s trade. The Atlanta Journal Constitution said that nine out of every
ten young men in the southern towns were going into the business of clerking.