Agrarian Life

Travel back to a period of simplified everyday life, when candles were considered luxury items and grocery stores were nonexistent. Agrarian farmers built their entire houses without store bought materials, and survived off of only what they produced. Children were seen as workers, not as an extra expense, and played a major role in production. The question is, why would someone want to live this primitive life in an age of growing industrialization?. For the Southern Agrarians, farming was a spiritual practice that was seen as the only occupation that allowed people to live free. They believed that industry and trade made one dependent on a boss, and caused greedy personalties. As generally self-sufficient people, small farmers had little use or interest in economic development. The ideas of factories and mass production caused national excitement that turned Agrarian ideals into a minority belief. The struggle to maintain traditional values and expose industry as a form of e...