TY - BOOK AU - Grivno,Max L. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Gleanings of freedom: free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 T2 - The working class in American history AV - E445.M3 G74 2011eb U1 - 305.5/63 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Slave labor KW - Maryland KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Slavery KW - Freedmen KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Mason-Dixon Line KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10653972 ER -