White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia

by Charles L. Flynn and Jr. Flynn, Charles L.

The society of the postbellum South was built upon two interweaving but ultimately irreconcilable systems: a racist caste system and an economic class system. The caste system was supposed to assure that all whites would be equals above the underclass of black laborers. But the class system that emerged in the years after the war placed lower-class whites in the same economic position as the emancipated slaves -- a situation totally at odds with prevailing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807110973
• ISBN13: 9780807110973
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.