The Resource Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South, Keri Leigh Merritt, (electronic resource)
Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South, Keri Leigh Merritt, (electronic resource)
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The item Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South, Keri Leigh Merritt, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781107184244
- Label
- Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South
- Title
- Masterless men
- Title remainder
- poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South
- Statement of responsibility
- Keri Leigh Merritt
- Subject
-
- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Poor white people -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Poor white people -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Labor -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Social conflict -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1980-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Merritt, Keri Leigh
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies on the American South
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Poor white people
- Poor white people
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Labor
- Land tenure
- Social conflict
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Label
- Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South, Keri Leigh Merritt, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- Control code
- ssj0001834162
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9781107184244
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2017003313
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001834162
- Label
- Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South, Keri Leigh Merritt, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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
- Control code
- ssj0001834162
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Governing access note
- Access restricted to subscribing institutions
- Isbn
- 9781107184244
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alkaline paper)
- Lccn
- 2017003313
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)ssj0001834162
Subject
- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Poor white people -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Poor white people -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Labor -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Social conflict -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Race relations | History -- 19th century
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
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