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Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South /

"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 Sout...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:Cambridge studies on the American South.
Subjects:
Poor whites > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Poor whites > Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Labor > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Social conflict > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.

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