Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge Studies on the American South)
In "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South," Keri Leigh Merritt explores how the reliance on slave labor in the American South marginalized poor whites, creating an underclass that threatened the social hierarchy and contributed to the secessionist movement.
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