Southern society and its transformations 1790 - 1860
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Legal and Extralegal Dimensions of Race Relations -- Chapter 1: "A Vile, Immoral, and Profligate Course of Life": Poor Whites and the Enforcement of Vagrancy Laws in Antebellum Georgia -- Chapter 2: The Lynching of Slaves: Race, Law, and the White Community in the Antebellum South -- Part II: The Advent of the Market Economy and the Agricultural World -- Chapter 3: Frontier Capitalism: Market Migration to Rural Central Missouri, 1815-1860 -- Chapter 4: "Anything . . . That Would Pay": Yeoman Farmers and the Nascent Market Economy on the Antebellum Plantation Frontier -- Chapter 5: "Chased Out on the Slippery Ice": Rural Wage Laborers in Baltimore's Hinterlands, 1815-1860 -- Part III: The Rise of the Middle Classes -- Chapter 6: Professionalization and the Southern Middle Class -- Chapter 7: Education and Professionals in the Old South: Schooling's Impact on Career and Social Class -- Chapter 8: Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Antebellum South -- Chapter 9: "In Pursuit of Their Livelihood": Credit and Debt Relations Among Natchez Planters in the 1820s -- Contributors -- Index.
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