Masterless Men by Keri Leigh Merritt

Masterless Men

Keri Leigh Merritt

370 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Analyzing land policy, labor, and legal history, Keri Leigh Merritt reveals what happens to excess workers when a capitalist system is predicated on slave labor. With the rising global demand for cotton - and thus, slaves - in the 1840s and 1850s,...

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