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

Poor white slaveholders and their slaves in the antebellum South

Dados Bibliográficos

ID17547809
AutoresLydia Plath (University of Warwick, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume38
Fascículo3
Páginas475-488
Data de publicação2017-05-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSlavery and Abolition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523
EditoraFrank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/0144039x.2017.1327095
OpenAlexW2614333870
IdiomaEN
Referências 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