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Working on the Dock of the Bay : Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port /
Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers -- black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant -- in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwor...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. "Using violent exercise in warm weather": The Waterfront Labor Experience and Environment
- Two. "This very troublesome business": Actions, Reactions, and the Pursuit of Mastery
- Three. "Improper assemblies & conspiracies": The Advantageous Enticements of Wharf Labor
- Four. "Laborers from abroad have come to take their places": The Racial and Ethnic Transformation of the Waterfront Workforce
- Five. "The unacclimated stranger should be positively prohibited": Comparative Disease Susceptibility and Waterfront Labor Competition
- Postscript
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
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- F
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- I
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