Gobbets

• Ball Ch 15
• Kemble extracts
• Kollock Plantation Papers
• Grimball Diary

Questions

How did slaves view poor whites and vice versa? Did poor whites share the racial ideology of owners? How did relationships between poor whites and slaves change over time? Was there a class alliance between poor whites and slaves? What made a good overseer?

Core Reading

• Tim Lockley 'Partners in Crime: African-Americans and non-slaveholding whites in antebellum Georgia,' in Matt Wray & Annalee Newitz, (eds.) White Trash: Race and Class in America, 57-72.

• Lydia Plath 'My master and Miss ... warn't nothing but poor white trash': poor white slaveholders and their slaves in the antebellum South S&A 38 (2017) 475-88

• Berlin, Ira, & Gutman, Herbert, 'Natives and immigrants, free men and slaves: urban workingmen in the antebellum American South', AHR, LXXXVIII, (1983), 1175-1200. 

E-resources

• Siegel, Fred, 'Artisans and immigrants in the politics of late antebellum Georgia', Civil War History, XXVII, (1981), 221-230.
• Lockley, Tim, 'A struggle for survival: non-elite white women in lowcountry Georgia' in Farnham ed., Women of the American South 
• Lockley, Tim, 'Crossing the Race Divide: Interracial sex in antebellum Savannah' S&A, 18, (1997), 159-173.
• Shelton, Robert, "On Empire's Shore: Free and Unfree workers in Galveston, Texas, 1840-1860" Journal of Social History, (2007)

Further reading

• Harris, J. W.., 'The organisation of work on a yeoman slaveholder's farm', Ag Hist, LXIV, (1990), 39-52.
• Genovese, E., 'Yeoman farmers in a slaveholders democracy', Ag. Hist, XLIX, (1975), 331-342.
• Morgan, Philip, Slave Counterpoint (pt2)
• Bolton, Charles C., Poor whites of the antebellum South: tenants and labourers in central North Carolina and northeast Mississippi.
• Tracy Susan J, In the master's eye: representations of women, blacks and poor whites in antebellum southern literature. 
• Delfino, Susanna and Gillespie, Michele (eds), Neither lady nor slave: working women of the old south 
• Hahn, Steven, The roots of Southern populism: yeoman farmers and the transformation of the Georgia upcountry, 1850-1890. 
• Harris, J. William, Plain folk and gentry in a slave society (pt 1) 
• Flynt, J. Wayne, Dixie's forgotten people: the South's poor whites. 
• Owsley, Frank Lawrence, Plain folk of the old South. 
• McCurry, Stephanie, Masters of Small Worlds: yeoman households, gender relations, and the political culture of the antebellum South Carolina lowcountry.
• Hyde, Samuel (Ed), Plain Folk of the South Revisited
• Hodes, Martha, White women, black men
• Lockley, Tim, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia 
• Scarborough, William Kauffman, The overseer: plantation management in the old South. 
• Van Deburg, W., The slave drivers, black agricultural labor supervisors in the antebellum south 
• Hadden, Sally E. Slave patrols : law and violence in Virginia and the Carolinas
• Gillespie, Michele, Free labor in an unfree world : white artisans in slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860
• Forret, Jeff, Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Southern Countryside.