‘My master and Miss … warn’t nothing but poor white trash’
Poor white slaveholders and their slaves in the antebellum South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17547809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Plath (University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 475-488 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2017.1327095 |
| OpenAlex | W2614333870 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
While the majority of enslaved people lived on large plantations, there were a significant minority who lived on smaller farms where they and their families were the only slaves owned by their master (or mistress). This article uses 22 Works Progress Administration (WPA) interviews conducted in the 1930s with former slaves from across the South to investigate the lives of enslaved people living with masters or mistresses that they described as ‘poor’, and argues that enslaved experiences on small farms owned by poor whites varied widely, but were marked particularly by violence, material deprivation, and intense loneliness
Administration (probate law) · Criminology · Loneliness · Nothing · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · White (mutation) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
The ruling race
The American Slave
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman
Plain Folk Reconsidered
Dixie's Forgotten People
Weevils in the Wheat
Race Relations at the Margins
Using the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Impact of the Great Depression
Lines in the Sand
Family or Freedom
Assessing Memory
Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |