""Patrician and Plebeian in Virginia: Or the Origin and Development of the Social Classes of the Old Dominion"" is a historical book written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker in 1910. The book explores the social classes and hierarchies that existed in Virginia during the colonial and antebellum periods. Wertenbaker examines the origins of these classes, including the patrician class of wealthy landowners and the plebeian class of farmers and laborers...