Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The master-servant relationship in early modern england and the American colonies
  • 3. Labor imagined
  • 4. The freeborn englishman and the persistence of traditional service
  • 5. The ambiguous impact of the American revolution
  • 6. Working out the idea and practice of free labor
  • 7. The federal anti-peonage act of 1867
  • Conclusion. Self-ownership and self-government in the nineteenth century
  • Appendix. Habeas corpus file of runaway laborers, chesapeake and ohio canal company (1829).