Keri Leigh Merritt
Historian and Independent Scholar, Atlanta, Georgia, US
Keri Leigh Merritt is an independent scholar and historian. Her research focuses on race, class, labour, law, poverty and power. She is the author of Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (2017), co-editor of Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (2018), and has a bio of Lillian Smith coming out with St Martin’s Press in 2025. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
