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Historian (PhD). Writer. Film. Politics. Labor. Books: #MasterlessMen & #RSLH. New @TheCivilWarDoc1. Punk rawk grrrl. Talk nerdy to me.🤓 IG: @kerileighmerritt

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    kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

    I'm seeing some misinformation here re: non-slaveholding southerners fighting in the #CivilWar since @TheTattooedProf 's #RobertELee thread went viral. So let's get a few things right:

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      2. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        1. Support for the #Confederacy varied greatly among non-slaveholders, depending on rural/urban, Upper/Lower South, slave societies/societies w slaves, & ties to slaveholders. Class also mattered: many landholding yeomen DID think 1 day they could own slaves, some rented slaves.

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      3. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        2. But for many cyclically-poor landless whites, esp in the cotton South (abt 1/3 white pop), there was no desire to fight & die to protect slave property. They even realized that their lives were negatively impacted (socio-economically) by the "peculiar institution."

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      4. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        3. In the cotton South, poor whites were overwhelmingly illiterate & often disenfranchised, & even when they voted they did so viva voce in front of 3 of the most powerful slaveholders in town, who controlled job prospects, property leases, & the criminal justice system.

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      5. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        4. (Important:) Most poor whites FULLY REALIZED they could never afford a purchase a slave. Most never owned more than a few dollars cash at the richest point in their lives. There was no credit for poor people.

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      6. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        5. And you wanna know how much a slave cost in 1860 in today's (2011) terms? An astounding $130,000: http://measuringworth.com pic.twitter.com/ZPoJdakqDE

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      7. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        6. In the 1850s, non-slaveholding laborers were forming nascent unions, demanding protection from competition w brutalized slave labor. These unions met throughout the South, & some even threatened to withdraw their support for slavery altogether -it hurt their prospects & wages.

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      8. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        7. By eve of war, slaveholders used racist media to try to scare lower class whites into supporting secession, predicting that they'd be raped & slaughtered by the thousands in an inevitable race war following emancipation. If they lived, slaveholders said, they'd be white slavespic.twitter.com/wzEevT0Gy1

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      9. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        8. Slaveholders were terrified of Republican Party, & not just because of the Party's stance on slavery:pic.twitter.com/RwoM6joGCQ

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      10. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        9. More on "Red" & "Black" Republicans: #SUSIHhttps://s-usih.org/2017/08/reflections-on-david-potters-the-impending-crisis-part-2/ …

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      11. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        10. Unfortunately, no matter how many times abolitionists tried to reach the white masses, censorship+illiteracy+police state rendered the effort fruitless. Lynchings for whites -whether talking about Lincoln, or possessing Hinton Helper's book, or associating w Blacks-abounded.

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      12. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        11. So why did poor whites vote for secession?? Well, many did not. Voter turn-out dropped precipitously bw the 1860 Presidential election and the secession convention elections - the extent of apathy v force is still unknown. Fraud *was* rampant.pic.twitter.com/wzH83rK4Rp

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      13. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        12. And we *must* keep in mind that slave societies were HEAVILY policed, constantly surveilled, censored societies. Slaveholders used vigilante violence whenever they could to beat & torture ppl into maintaining the southern hierarchy:pic.twitter.com/w5NoCSTL2I

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      14. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        13. Now, re: joining the Confederacy: both historians & (quant) political scientists agree that most of the ppl volunteering were slaveholders or made a living off of slavery somehow. In the early years, poor whites who joined typically did so for 4 reasons: (1) FORCE. Accounts

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      15. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        14. of poor men forced at the point of bayonets, or who were arrested for vagrancy & then forced to join are common. (2) PAY. Already trapped in cyclical un-& under-employment, this was a steady & decent wage. Good-excellent, life-changing $ for substitutions,etc. (3) LAND. prior

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      16. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        15. to the Civil War, veterans had always had the chance to get LAND for their service. Poor whites had NO land. (4) Honor. These were white men with no honor...& what's the quickest way to gain honor? Fight to protect your home.

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      17. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        16. Poor whites were forced to join en masse after the Conscription Act of 1862. Then the "Twenty Negro Act," exempting the richest slaveholders, inflamed class tensions. = led to massive defections/desertions of the poor in 63-64, ultimately adding to the Confederacy's defeat

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      18. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        17. Whether Unionist, anti-Confederate, or just completely apathetic, non-slaveholding whites - along with the enslaved & the Union - ultimately added to the Confederacy's demise.

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      19. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        18 (FIN). The slave regime of the South - the #Confederacy - needs to be remembered for what it was. In 1867 Union General John Pope wrote a letter to Ulysses Grant, expressing his concerns about how the Civil War—and the causes of the Confederacy—would be remembered in history:pic.twitter.com/ENsc9hXMk8

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      20. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        Wow - this has blown up, thank you. (And many thanks to @TheTattooedProf & @PatrickIber for the shout-outs). For those who are asking, yes, this is pretty much all from my book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1316635430/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=&sr= …

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      21. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 17 Aug 2018

        Or from @cambUP_History:http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/early-republic-and-antebellum-history/masterless-men-poor-whites-and-slavery-antebellum-south?format=PB …

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      22. kerileigh merritt‏ @KeriLeighMerrit 21 Aug 2018

        kerileigh merritt Retweeted kerileigh merritt

        Here's a link to my thread on the historiography: (@SandyDarity thought you may be interested.)https://twitter.com/KeriLeighMerrit/status/1031924416270282754?s=19 …

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        kerileigh merritt @KeriLeighMerrit
        Thread as promised on the Solid White (#Confederate) South thesis, including the "herding thesis," culture of honor, "Cracker culture" tropes, & why overturning these rids us (false) history written by white supremacists.
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