Was most of the great planters of the southern planters world mostly sons of wealthy families?

As the wealth of the antebellum South increased, it also became more ... South Carolinian Nathaniel Heyward, a wealthy rice planter

the main inference that can be drawn from jean jacques rousseau's book the social contract is: a. people can enjoy civil and physical freedom, even if it sometimes harms society.

i think it was because of how protected egyptian civilization was was which allowed them to evolve without much outside influence.