1 Don't put yourself in his class.
2 He was not of the planter class at all, though he was not poor white.
3 But Miz Kennedy--well, she just ain't in the same class with you, Miz Wilkes.
4 The better class of them, scorning freedom, were suffering as severely as their white masters.
5 And now this class, the lowest in the black social order, was making life a misery for the South.
6 Too many of their fathers and grandfathers had come up to wealth from the small farmer class for that.
7 But they knew instinctively, as they knew thoroughbred horses from scrubs, that he was not of their class.
8 But they were, as a class, childlike in mentality, easily led and from long habit accustomed to taking orders.
9 And she felt a closer kinship with him than with many men of her own class, for Johnnie knew the value of money.
10 It was hard to say which class was more cordially hated by the settled citizenry, the impractical Yankee schoolmarms or the Scallawags, but the balance probably fell with the latter.
11 She did not hesitate to display arrogance to her new Republican and Scallawag friends but to no class was she ruder or more insolent than the Yankee officers of the garrison and their families.
12 When they looked into her young face and saw there the inflexible loyalty to the old days, they could forget, for a moment, the traitors within their own class who were causing fury, fear and heartbreak.
13 Many loyal field hands also refused to avail themselves of the new freedom, but the hordes of "trashy free issue niggers," who were causing most of the trouble, were drawn largely from the field-hand class.
14 The garrison families had a right to be bewildered for most of them were quiet, well-bred folk, lonely in a hostile land, anxious to go home to the North, a little ashamed of the riffraff whose rule they were forced to uphold--an infinitely better class than that of Scarlett's associates.
15 But rich planters were few in the young county of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among the sons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites, if they were above the average of their class.