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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South [Audiobook]
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Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South [Audiobook] by Keri Leigh Merritt
English | April 12, 2019 | ASIN: B07QBQJ1BV | MP3@64 kbps | 17h 32m | 482 MB
Narrator: Keri Leigh Merritt
English | April 12, 2019 | ASIN: B07QBQJ1BV | MP3@64 kbps | 17h 32m | 482 MB
Narrator: Keri Leigh Merritt
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 socioeconomic 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.