Race relations at the margins
Subtitle: slaves and poor whites in the antebellum Southern countryside
By: Jeff Forret.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions.; Poor whites -- Southern States -- Social conditions.; Social interaction -- Southern States -- History.; Marginality, Social -- Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Race relations.; Southern States -- Rural conditions.; Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The social world of slaves and poor whites : work, leisure, and perception; title: The underground economy; title: Poor white roles in slave control and slave resistance; title: A masculine subculture of violence; title: The double standard : sex and sexual violence.