Keri Leigh Merritt

Masterless Men

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781316635438
• ISBN-10: 1316635430
• Artikelnr.: 49442132

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.