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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

"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians

Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor