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Keri Leigh Merritt

Keri Leigh Merritt is an independent historian in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South" (2017). Follow her on Twitter: @KeriLeighMerrit.

Articles by this author

Once white supremacy began crumbling and white privilege began to wane, poor and working-class whites were left with a question of where, precisely, they fit into American society. (Photo: κύριαsity/flickr/cc)

Deaths of Despair and the Psychological Wages of Whiteness

Racism and policies supported by a majority of poor and working-class white voters can kill them.

Keri Leigh Merritt · Mar 19, 2020

Why We Need a Universal Basic Income

America is in desperate need of both a universal basic income and a federal jobs guarantee

Keri Leigh Merritt · Sep 17, 2017

Thousands gather with candles to march along the path that white supremacists took the prior Friday with torches on the University of Virginia Campus in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 16, 2017.

Charlottesville and the Confederate Legacy

The white supremacist violence in Virginia echoed the tactics of antebellum vigilante groups and showed how deep the roots of racism in America are.

Keri Leigh Merritt · Aug 18, 2017

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