Gleanings of freedom [electronic resource] : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.
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TextSeries: Working class in American historyPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 269 p. : ill., mapSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 305.5/63 23
- E445.M3 G74 2011eb
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.
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