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|a Merritt, Keri Leigh
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|a Masterless men
|b poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South
|c Keri Leigh Merritt
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|a 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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|a Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century
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|a Southern States / Economic conditions / 19th century
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|a Southern States / Race relations / History / 19th century
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|a Poor whites / Southern States / Social conditions / 19th century
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|a Poor whites / Southern States / Economic conditions / 19th century
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|a Slavery / Social aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century
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|a Slavery / Economic aspects / Southern States / History / 19th century
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|a Labor / Southern States / History / 19th century
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|a Land tenure / Southern States / History / 19th century
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|a Social conflict / Southern States / History / 19th century
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|a Cambridge Books Online
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|a Cambridge studies on the American South
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|a 10.1017/9781316875568
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|a 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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