Gleanings of freedom free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 /

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Autor Principal: Grivno, Max L.
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.
Series:Working class in American history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803
  • "The land flows with milk and honey" : agriculture and labor in the early republic
  • "A strange reverse of fortune" : panic, depression, and the transformation of labor
  • "There are objections to black and white, but one must be chosen" : managing farms and farmhands in antebellum Maryland
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  • how much of oursels we owned" : finding freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line
  • "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in antebellum Maryland
  • Conclusion : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.