Land and labor, 1866-1867:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC University of North Carolina Press 2013
Series:Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ser. 3, v. 2
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Item Description:The source of all the documents published in the Freedom series is the United States National Archives and Records Administration
Includes bibliographical references and index
Enforcing free labor -- Possession and dispossession -- Labor on plantation and farm -- Nonagricultural labor -- Labor and family life -- Commerce, credit, and debt -- Dependency and relief -- Workers on the move -- In search of landed independence
This volume examines the remaking of the South's labour system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labour, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1469607425
1469611090
9781469607429
9781469611099

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