Tuckahoe was a term used during the 18th and 19th centuries to describe a cultural group, for example by the low-country Virginia/Carolina slave-owning plantation owners with all of their economic, political, social, and ethnic traits, in contrast to the “cohee” cultural group. The cohee were typically non-Anglican, poor, non-slave-owning, hard-scrabble independent farmers moving into or through the hills and mountainous regions of Virginia and both Carolinas. Both “tuckaho… (
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