"Poor, deluded, ignorant masses": revisiting the poor non-slaveholding whites of the antebellum south.

The notion of racial unity among poor whites conceals as much as it reveals about white society in the antebellum period. This article examines the extent to which the notion of "whiteness" united white Southern men across racial lines and muted class divisions in this period. Central to the discuss...

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Publicado en:American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 285 - 303
Autor principal: Coombs, Harriet
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2022
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