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Poor whites of the antebellum South : tenants and laborers in central North Carolina and northeast Mississippi / by Charles C. Bolton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 1994.Description: x, 258 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0822314282 (cloth)
  • 9780822314288 (cloth)
  • 0822314681 (pbk.)
  • 9780822314684 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC107.N83 P613 1994
Contents:
A window into the world of Antebellum poor whites : the story of Edward Isham -- "A third class of white people" : poor whites in North Carolina's central Piedmont -- A troubling presence : white poverty in a slave society -- Poverty moves West : the migration of poor whites to the old Southwest -- Poor whites in the cotton South : Northeast Mississippi -- Electoral politics and the popular presence : the political world of the Antebellum South -- Electoral politics versus the popular presence : the secession crisis in North Carolina -- Electoral politics versus the popular presence : the secession crisis in Mississippi -- Epilogue : Poor whites and the "New South."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

A window into the world of Antebellum poor whites : the story of Edward Isham -- "A third class of white people" : poor whites in North Carolina's central Piedmont -- A troubling presence : white poverty in a slave society -- Poverty moves West : the migration of poor whites to the old Southwest -- Poor whites in the cotton South : Northeast Mississippi -- Electoral politics and the popular presence : the political world of the Antebellum South -- Electoral politics versus the popular presence : the secession crisis in North Carolina -- Electoral politics versus the popular presence : the secession crisis in Mississippi -- Epilogue : Poor whites and the "New South."