Name: Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South) (en Inglés)
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Author: Merritt, Keri Leigh
ISBN: 9781316635438

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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Keri Leigh Merritt

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

372

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.3 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781316635438

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del sur
Siglo xix, c. 1800-c. 1899
Pobreza y precariedad
Vivienda y personas sin hogar
Historia de américa
Historia local

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South) (en Inglés)

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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.