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How does Helper describe the economic and social conditions of non slave-holding white southerners ?

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Helper and other describe the economic and social conditions of non slave-holding white southerners as being fairly destitute, mostly due to the fact that poor whites often had to "compete" with slaves for work, which was a bad bargain.
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