Land and labor, 1866-1867 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Authors: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission (sponsoring body.), United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Other Authors: Hayden, René (Editor), Kaye, Anthony E. (Editor), Masur, Kate (Editor), Miller, Steven F. (Editor), O'Donovan, Susan E. (Editor), Rowland, Leslie S. (Editor), West, Stephen A., 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
Series:Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 3, v. 2.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Freed persons > Southern States > History > Sources.
Freed persons > Southern States > Economic conditions > Sources.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877 > Sources.
African Americans > Land tenure > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
African Americans > Employment > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > Sources.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques > Sources.
Noirs américains > Histoire > 1863-1877 > Sources.
Noirs américains > Terres > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Noirs américains > Travail > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
African Americans.
African Americans > Employment.
African Americans > Land tenure.
Freed persons.
Freed persons > Economic conditions.
Race relations.
Southern States > History > 1865-1877 > Sources.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century > Sources.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century > Sources.
États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 1865-1877 > Sources.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Southern States.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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