Calvin Schermerhorn

A History of Slavery in the United States

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn slavery

This is an excerpt from Calvin Schermerhorn’s Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This excerpt has been reprinted

In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Deep South, Jim Crow, landownership, Marxism, Politics, Racial Capitalism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in