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020 $a9781107184244$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
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050 00 $aF220.A1$bM37 2017
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100 1 $aMerritt, Keri Leigh,$d1980-$eauthor.
245 10 $aMasterless men :$bpoor Whites and slavery in the antebellum South /$cKeri Leigh Merritt.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY, USA :$bCambridge University Press,$c2017.
264 4 $c©2017
300 $ax, 361 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge studies on the American South
520 2 $a"Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton--and thus, slaves--in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete--for jobs or living wages--with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: The second degree of slavery -- 1. The Southern origins of the Homestead Act -- 2. The demoralization of labor -- 3. Masterless (and militant) white workers -- 4. Everyday life : material realities -- 5. Literacy, education, and disfranchisement -- 6. Vagrancy, alcohol, and crime -- 7. Poverty and punishment -- 8. Race, Republicans, and vigilante violence -- 9. Class crisis and the Civil War -- Conclusion: A duel emancipation -- Appendix: Numbers, percentages, and the census.
650 0 $aPoor whites$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aPoor whites$zSouthern States$xEconomic conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLabor$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLand tenure$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aSocial conflict$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xEconomic conditions$y19th century.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century.$2bisacsh
830 0 $aCambridge studies on the American South.
852 00 $bglx$hF220.A1$iM37 2017