 In the United States, yeomen were identified in the 18th and 19th centuries as non-slaveholding, small landowning, family farmers.In areas of the Southern United States where land was poor, like East Tennessee, the landowning yeomen were typically subsistence farmers, but some managed to grow crops for market.Whether they engaged in subsistence or commercial agriculture, they controlled far more modest landholdings than those of the planters, typically in the range of 50–200 acres.