Description: 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

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