Partners in crime: African Americans and non-slaveholding whites in antebellum Georgia

White Trash: Race and Class in America

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 57-72

  Lockley, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203700648-10     Document Type: Chapter

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