Masterless Men : Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies on the American South
ISBN-10
110718424X
ISBN-13
9781107184244
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 8th, 2017
Print length
370 Pages
Weight
656 grams
Dimensions
16.40 x 23.60 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
South AmericaHistorySocial & cultural historyEconomic historyHistorySocial and cultural history
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Owning neither land nor slaves, poor whites comprised about a third of the American South's white population in 1860. Focusing on land, labor, and legal history, Masterless Men shows what happens to excess workers in a slave society.
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.
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