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Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the Antebellum South

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Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton – and thus, slaves – in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete – for jobs or living wages – with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these ‘masterless’ men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war.

Artikelnummer: 32659 Categorie: Tags: , ,
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Auteur: Merritt, Keri Leigh
Jaar: 2017
ISBN: 9781107184244
Pagina's: 370
Taal: English
Uitgever: Cambridge university press
Uitgever stad: Cambridge
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