Masterless men [electronic resource] : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South / Keri Leigh Merritt.

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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, the need for white laborers in the American South was...

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Main Author:	Merritt, Keri Leigh, 1980- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY,USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Series:	Cambridge studies on the American South
Subjects:	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. Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century. Southern States > Economic conditions > 19th century. Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2017 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Format:	Electronic eBook

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EBSCO eBooks: 2017 (EBSCO)
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