‘My master and Miss … warn’t nothing but poor white trash’

Poor white slaveholders and their slaves in the antebellum South

Datos Bibliográficos

ID17547809
AutoresLydia Plath (University of Warwick, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen38
Número3
Páginas475-488
Fecha de publicación2017-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSlavery and Abolition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523
EditorialFrank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0144039x.2017.1327095
OpenAlexW2614333870
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas12

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