Keri Leigh Merritt

Masterless Men

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9781107184244
• ISBN-10: 110718424X
• Artikelnr.: 47777535

Autorenporträt

Keri Leigh Merritt is an independent scholar in Atlanta, Georgia. Merritt's work on poverty and inequality has garnered multiple awards, and she is a co-editor of a volume on American South labor history.

Inhaltsangabe

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.