Del i serien Cambridge Studies on the American South
Masterless Men
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2017-05-08
- Mått160 x 235 x 26 mm
- Vikt660 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
- Antal sidor370
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781107184244