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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |