Freedom

A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867

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ID19909977
AuthorsSteven F Miller (0000-0002-5368-4587), Susan E O'Donovan
EditorsRene Hayden, Anthony E Kaye, Kate Masur
Year2013
Pages1104
Publication date2013-08-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFreedom : a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 : Series 3, Volume 2 (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9781469611099_hayden
OpenAlexW2476559756
Open LibraryOL31126116M
ISBN9781469611099
LanguageEN
Citations received11

This book examines the remaking of the South's labor 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 labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. Among the topics addressed are the dispossession of settlers in the Sherman reserve, the reordering of labor on plantation and farm, nonagricultural labor, new relations of credit and debt, long-distance labor migration, and the efforts of fo ... More

Debt · Economic history · Economics · Emancipation · Labor relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Possession (linguistics) · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · Finance · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 1861-1865 · 1863-1877 · 1865-1877 · 19th century · African americans · Civil War · Economic conditions · employment · Freed persons · Freedmen · Land tenure · race relations · Slaves · Sources · Southern states · to 1863 · united states

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