Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi

by Charles C. Bolton

In Poor Whites of the Antebellum South, Charles C. Bolton gives a distinct voice to one of the most elusive groups in the society of the Old South. Bolton's detailed examination reveals much about the lives of these landless white tenants and laborers and their relationship to yeoman farmers, black slaves, free blacks and elite whites. Providing a provocative analysis of the failure of the Jeffersonian "yeoman ideal" of democracy in white-majority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822314681
• ISBN13: 9780822314684
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"