Race Relations at the Margins Slaves and Poor Whites by Jeff Forret PAPERBACK

Race Relations at the Margins Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside\nby Jeff Forret\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jeff Forret\nTitle: Race Relations at the Margins Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: LSU Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780807137123\nISBN-10: 080713712X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and under-reported. Forret's findings challenge historians' long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups' interactions.\.