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Race relations at the margins : slaves and poor whites in the antebellum Southern countryside / Jeff Forret.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Forret, Jeff, 1972-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Marginality, Social.
History.
Social interaction.
Poor white people.
Social conditions.
Enslaved persons.
Southern States--Race relations.
Southern States.
Race relations.
Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
Poor white people--Southern States--Social conditions.
Social interaction--Southern States--History.
Marginality, Social--Southern States--History.
Southern States--Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Southern States--History--1775-1865.
Physical Description:
ix, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2006]
Contents:
The social world of slaves and poor whites : work, leisure, and perception
The underground economy
Poor white roles in slave control and slave resistance
A masculine subculture of violence
The double standard : sex and sexual violence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-262) and index.
ISBN:
0807131458
OCLC:
61731312
Publisher Number:
9780807131459

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