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Masterless Men

Masterless Men

Merritt, Keri Leigh

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Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South

19th Century United States HistoryPoverty & Social WorkRegional: South

Publisher Price: $33.00

ISBN10: 1316635430
ISBN13: 9781316635438
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2017
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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