Southern slaveholding aristocracy

Target entity: Southern slaveholding aristocracy
Context triple: [Wade Hampton II, partOf, Southern slaveholding aristocracy]

• A. Southern Society
  Southern Society was a secret revolutionary organization of Russian officers in the early 19th century that sought to overthrow autocracy and implement liberal reforms.
• B. South Carolina planters
  South Carolina planters were wealthy colonial slaveholding landowners whose economic and political power depended on plantation agriculture and the exploitation of enslaved Africans.
• C. antebellum Virginia
  Antebellum Virginia was the pre–Civil War Southern U.S. state characterized by a plantation-based slave economy, rigid social hierarchies, and growing sectional tensions over slavery and states’ rights.
• D. Virginia planter class
  The Virginia planter class was the wealthy, slaveholding elite of colonial and early American Virginia who dominated the region’s politics, economy, and social life through large tobacco plantations and inherited landholdings.
• E. Southern loyalists
  Southern loyalists were residents of the Confederate states who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War, often facing persecution for their pro-Union stance.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Southern slaveholding aristocracy
Target entity description: The Southern slaveholding aristocracy was a wealthy, landowning elite in the antebellum American South whose social and political power rested on the ownership of large plantations and enslaved people.

• A. Southern Society
  Southern Society was a secret revolutionary organization of Russian officers in the early 19th century that sought to overthrow autocracy and implement liberal reforms.
• B. South Carolina planters
  South Carolina planters were wealthy colonial slaveholding landowners whose economic and political power depended on plantation agriculture and the exploitation of enslaved Africans.
• C. antebellum Virginia
  Antebellum Virginia was the pre–Civil War Southern U.S. state characterized by a plantation-based slave economy, rigid social hierarchies, and growing sectional tensions over slavery and states’ rights.
• D. Virginia planter class
  The Virginia planter class was the wealthy, slaveholding elite of colonial and early American Virginia who dominated the region’s politics, economy, and social life through large tobacco plantations and inherited landholdings.
• E. Southern loyalists
  Southern loyalists were residents of the Confederate states who remained loyal to the Union during the American Civil War, often facing persecution for their pro-Union stance.
• F. None of above. chosen