Gleanings of freedom free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 /
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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
c2011.
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| Reeks: | Working class in American history.
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.