![]() ![]() We inherited lock stock and barrel ideology of England and is particularly the way in which the poor were described as a vital. We like to believe that at the time of the American Revolution we broke free from the class system. This is the way that people in England saw people in the American colonies. Well into the 18th century both Thomas Jefferson rural poor as rubbish. I also discovered that this continues to be a recurrent theme. One of the most important Elizabethan promoters of North America describes the idle poor that he would be - New World as waste people. This became perfectly clear when I began to look at how the British thought about the columnists that they were going to literally jump into the New World. I realized that the ideas embedded in white trash have a much older history. Most scholars say the first time the term white trash appears in print is in the 1820s. Nancy why did you call your book about class in America white trash? Tom Koch spoke with Louisiana state history professor Nancy Isenberg the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. To America's shame in the 18th century that phrase did not apply to black Americans or two women and a new book argues that poor whites were also ignored by some of America's founders. All men are created equal is one of the most famous passages from the Declaration of Independence. ![]()
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