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Grivno, Max L.

Gleanings of freedom free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / [electronic resource] : Max Grivno. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. - xiii, 269 p. : ill., map. - The working class in American history . - Working class in American history. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803 -- "The land flows with milk and honey" : agriculture and labor in the early republic -- "A strange reverse of fortune" : panic, depression, and the transformation of labor -- "There are objections to black and white, but one must be chosen" : managing farms and farmhands in antebellum Maryland -- " -- how much of oursels we owned" : finding freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line -- "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in antebellum Maryland -- Conclusion : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slave labor--History--Maryland--19th century.
Slavery--History--Maryland--19th century.
Freedmen--History--Maryland--19th century.
Agricultural laborers--History--Maryland--19th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Mason-Dixon Line.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E445.M3 / G74 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5/63