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 South wa...
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| Summary: | 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 |
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| contents | 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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| spelling | Merritt, Keri Leigh 1980- Verfasser (DE-588)113912174X aut Masterless men poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South Keri Leigh Merritt Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017 1 online resource (x, 361 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cambridge studies on the American South Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jul 2017) 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 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 Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte Gesellschaft Sklaverei Wirtschaft Poor whites / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century Poor whites / 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 Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century Southern States / Economic conditions / 19th century Southern States / Race relations / History / 19th century Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, hardback 978-1-107-18424-4 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, paperback 978-1-316-63543-8 (DE-604)BV044977924 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316875568 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Merritt, Keri Leigh 1980- Masterless men poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South 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 Geschichte Gesellschaft Sklaverei Wirtschaft Poor whites / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century Poor whites / 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 |
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