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.
Temas:
1800-1899
Poor white people > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Poor white people > Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Labor > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Social conflict > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Pauvres Blancs > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Pauvres Blancs > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle.
Travail > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Economic history.
Labor.
Land tenure.
Race relations.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Social conflict.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques > 19e siècle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Southern States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 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.

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