This 17-minute documentary was filmed in Ohio and covers the subject of the mounds located in the Ohio River Valley. Mounds which were built up by the Hopewell culture from around 200 BC until 500 AD. The Hopewell were preceded by the Adena culture . ( Cultures that succeeded the Hopewell ) Thousands of mounds were built between these two cultures. Sadly, many of which have been damaged or destroyed due to carelessness while researching them, damaged for the use as materials for building foundations for homes , and in 2009, damaged to provide for fill for Sam's Club in Oxford, Alabama . The last records of these mounds being built were in the 1600s. Watch: The Legacy of the Mound Builders Why and How did Native Americans Build Mounds Heironymous Rowe at English Wikipedia [ CC BY-SA 3.0 ], via Wikimedia Commons

This post contains an excerpt from the 1860 book " Social Relations In Our Southern States"  by Daniel Robinson Hundley . The title of the chapter that this text is from is titled, "Poor White Trash." The chapter tells of how the slave owners, and the Southern elite, viewed poor whites in the Confederate south. Including being the views of the author himself. These Southern elites, the slave owners, the plantation owners, had a view that 'poor white trash' were worthless. They were looked down upon for living in rural areas instead of near plantations. They, the "white trash", wanted to be left alone. On the other hand, Southern elites wanted everything to be their business and for the benefit of their "business". These specific poor whites wanted no part of participating in slave ownership either since most of them were against it. All in all, If the Southern elite could have gotten away with it, they would've also enslaved poor ...