Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi

Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi
ISBN-10
0822314681
ISBN-13
9780822314684
Category
History
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Duke University Press
Author
Charles C. Bolton

Description

Bolton (history, U. of Southern Mississippi) illuminates the social complexity surrounding the lives of a group consistently dismissed as rednecks, crackers, and white trash: landless white tenants and laborers in the era of slavery. A short epilogue looks at their lives today. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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