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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South)
Masterless Men Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South - Cambridge Studies on the American South
Author: Keri Leigh Merritt
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 undercl...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107184244
ISBN-10: 110718424X
Publication Date: 5/8/2017
Pages: 377
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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