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Masterless Men
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Häftad, 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
- Utgivningsdatum2017-12-14
- Mått153 x 230 x 20 mm
- Vikt560 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieCambridge Studies on the American South
- Antal sidor372
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781316635438