{"title":"Keri Leigh Merritt","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"masterless-men-paperback","title":"Masterless Men - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnalyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s, the need for white laborers in the American South was drastically reduced, creating a large underclass who were unemployed or underemployed. These poor whites could not compete - for jobs or living wages - with profitable slave labor. Though impoverished whites were never subjected to the daily violence and degrading humiliations of racial slavery, they did suffer tangible socio-economic consequences as a result of living in a slave society. Merritt examines how these 'masterless' men and women threatened the existing Southern hierarchy and ultimately helped push Southern slaveholders toward secession and civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366806388959,"sku":"9781316635438","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RWkKjaPi6d9781316635438.webp?v=1789098702"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/keri-leigh-merritt.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}