Masterless Men by Keri Leigh Merritt

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/153754 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Masterless Men Author: Keri Leigh Merritt Narrator: Keri Leigh Merritt Format: mp3 Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins Release date: 04-12-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 53 ratings Genres: Economic History Publisher's Summary: 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.