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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South) by Keri Leigh Merritt is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South) about?
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 impoverish
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- Author
- Keri Leigh Merritt
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781316635438
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (144 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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