Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South by Keri Leigh Merritt

Cambridge Studies on the American South #23

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

Keri Leigh Merritt

Audiobook edition 17h 32m audio 2019

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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,...

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