Masterless men : poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South
Keri Leigh Merritt
Bok Engelsk 2013
Utgitt | 2013
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Omfang | x, 361 sider
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Opplysninger | Trenger ifm. masteroppgave! Går fint med online tilgang, hvis det er enklere!. - 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.. - "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"--. - info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com-BIBSYS_ILS
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Emner | Labor - History - Southern States
Land tenure - History - Southern States Poor whites - Social conditions - Southern States Slavery - Social aspects - History - Southern States Vis mer... Social conflict - History - Southern States
Arbeid : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09126 Fattigdom : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09321 Fattige : (NO-TrBIB)HUME22440 Jordeiendommer : (NO-TrBIB)HUME07805 Levekår : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09007 Slaveri : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09240 Sosiale konflikter : (NO-TrBIB)HUME09227 Økonomi : (NO-TrBIB)HUME07798 |
Geografisk emneord | Southern States - Economic conditions . - Southern States - Race relations - History . - Southern States - Social conditions . - Sørstatene : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01703
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ISBN | 9781107184244
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