Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
1. A Window into the World of Antebellum Poor Whites:
The Story of Edward Isham
2. "A Third Class of White People": Poor Whites in North Carolina's Central Piedmont
3. A Troubling Presence: White Poverty in a Slave Society
4. Poverty Moves West: The Migration of Poor Whites to the Old Southwest
5. Poor Whites in the Cotton South: Northeast Mississippi
6. Electoral Politics and the Popular Presence: The Political World of the Antebellum South
7. Electoral Politics versus the Popular Presence: The Secession Crisis in North Carolina
8. Electoral Politics versus the Popular Presence: The Secession Crisis in Mississippi
Epilogue: Poor Whites and the "New South"
Appendix: A Note on the Use of the Federal Manuscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index