EPISODE · Feb 15, 2019 · 24 MIN
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
from fifteeneightyfour (Archive) · host Cambridge University Press
Keri Leigh Merritt joins Cambridge editor Debbie Gershenowitz in our New York office to talk about the white underclass in 19th-century America, and how even in the antebellum South, the 1% colluded to divide poor whites and blacks. Masterless Men has been awarded the 2018 SHA Bennett H. Wall Award and the 2018 SSHA President's Book Award. Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South is available now.
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