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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

March 9, 2018March 15, 2018 Keri Leigh Merritt #MasterlessMen, poverty, reconstruction, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

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Pushing the Dual Emancipation Thesis Beyond its Troublesome Origins

March 8, 2018March 11, 2018 Adrienne Petty #MasterlessMen, poverty, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Toward the end of her valuable reinterpretation of southern slave

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The Politics of Poor Whiteness

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Jeff Forret #MasterlessMen, capitalism, electoral politics, slavery, South, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

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Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Michael Landis #MasterlessMen, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

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Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 William Sturkey civil rights, South, white supremacy

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

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