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K712.43/10 版次： |
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中图分类法:
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K712.43 版次： |
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著者:
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Merritt, Keri Leigh, |
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题名:
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Masterless men : [ poor whites and slavery in the antebellum South /] / , |
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出版发行:
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出版地： Cambridge, United Kingdom ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： 2017. |
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载体形态:
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x, 361 p. ; 24 cm. |
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内容提要:
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"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 socio-economic 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"-- |
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主题词:
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Poor whites Social conditions 19th century. Southern States |
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Poor whites Economic conditions 19th century. Southern States |
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Slavery Social aspects 19th century. Southern States |
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Slavery Economic aspects 19th century. Southern States |
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Labor History 19th century. Southern States |
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Land tenure History 19th century. Southern States |
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Social conflict History 19th century. Southern States |
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索书号:
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K712.43/10 |