Table of Contents:
  • "A vile, immoral, and profligate course of life" : poor whites and the enforcement of vagrancy laws in antebellum Georgia / Keri Leigh Merritt
  • The lynching of slaves : race, law, and the white community in the antebellum South / Michael J. Pfeifer
  • Frontier capitalism : market migration to rural central Missouri, 1815-1860 / Jeff Bremer
  • "Anything ... that would pay" : yeoman farmers and the nascent market economy on the antebellum plantation frontier / Gary T. Edwards
  • "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in Baltimore's hinterlands, 1815-1860 / Max L. Grivno
  • Professionalization and the Southern middle class / Jonathan Daniel Wells
  • Education and professionals in the Old South : schooling's impact on career and social class / Jennifer R. Green
  • Corporate entrepreneurship in the antebellum South / Robert E. Wright
  • "In pursuit of their livelihood" : credit and debt relations among Natchez planters in the 1820s / Elbra David.