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Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South /

"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 Sout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Colección:Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo