Keri Leigh Merritt: 1 book
Masterless Men
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
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...
