Participant Info
- First Name
- Keri Leigh
- Last Name
- Merritt
- Country
- United States
- State
- GA Georgia
- kerileighm@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Independent
- Website URL
- kerileighmerritt.com
- Keywords
- poverty, class, race, inequality, labor, working class, slavery, emancipation, Civil War, violence, incarceration, criminal justice
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- I try to reply to urgent emails within hours - please let me know if you have a time-sensitive deadline: info@kerileighmerritt.com
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Keri Leigh Merritt works as a historian and writer in Atlanta, Georgia. Her first book, Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She is also co-editor, with Matthew Hild, of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of Florida, 2018). Merritt is currently conducting research for two additional book-length projects. One is on radical black resistance in the vastly understudied Reconstruction era. The second project examines the changing role of law enforcement in the mid-nineteenth century South. It will ultimately link the rise of professional police forces in the Deep South to the end of slavery. She also writes historical pieces for the public, and has had letters and essays published in Aeon, Bill Moyers, Salon, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
- Recent Publications
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Co-editor, with Matthew Hild, Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (University Press of Florida, 2018).
- Media Coverage
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/25/1739584/-Book-review-Masterless-Men-Poor-Whites-and-Slavery-in-the-Antebellum-South
- Social Media
- @kerileighmerrit
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Capitalism, Economic History, Emancipation, Family, Food History, Government, Law, Migration & Immigration, Military, Politics, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women
