Factors, Bankers, and Masters: Class Relations in the Antebellum South

Susan Feiner

The Journal of Economic History, 1982, vol. 42, issue 1, 61-67

Abstract: The paper will show how the Marxian concept of class can be applied to the processes of slavery in the American antebellum South. The use of the notion of classes, and particularly the reconceptualized concepts of fundamental and subsumed class processes, provides an alternative to the received non-Marxian categories of plantation capitalism and planter hegemony. These concepts are developed and applied to Southern class conflicts over both state banking and national monetary policy. Competition among various classes is shown to have had significant influences on the nature of these conflicts.

Date: 1982
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