Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order

Authors

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

ISBN

9780521721813

Price

$22.99 softcover

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

"Slavery in the Abstract"

Elite southerners argued in the antebellum era that hierarchy was natural to society and that enslavement was better for propertyless laborers than free agency as experienced by wage workers in the North and in Europe. Urban workers especially lived as impoverish....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.11.3.17

Recommended Citation

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins (2009) "Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 11 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.11.3.17
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol11/iss3/17