Blending Class and Race in Southern Slavery Jun 29, 2019
Keri Leigh Merritt’s work, Masterless Men, is a fascinating and long overdue examination of the difficult relationship between Southern slavery and poor whites in the Antebellum period. While it is common to focus solely on the effects that slavery had on the enslaved blacks, Merritt discusses in great depth and detail how the institution affected the supposed free whites living on its edges. Specifically, one of the important topics that she brings up in her book is the manner in which the planter class attempted to prevent the blending of race and class in Southern slavery, and the consequences of...
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