The Small Whites Worked on the Plantations

Small whites were the men who actually ran the colony day in and day out. They could be managers, stewards, agents of absentee landlords or salaried employees from merchant houses. Also thrown into this mix were vagabonds that you always find in a colonial port city: runaways, ex pirates, failed emigrants who had nowhere else to go. None of them did any manual labor or worked as a servant because those jobs were exclusively done by slaves.