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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

By (author) Keri Leigh Merritt

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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.

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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 8 May 2017
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 370
Dimensions | 235 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 660g
ISBN | 978-1-1071-8424-4
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BISAC | history / united states / 19th century

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