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Livre 13 sur 65: Working Class in American History

Grivno, Max

 
9780252036521: Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
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ISBN 10 : 0252036522 ISBN 13 : 9780252036521
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2011

Synopsis

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason-Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Max Grivno is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252036522
ISBN 13 
9780252036521
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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