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Gleanings of Freedom : Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Working Class in American History SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (298 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252093562
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gleanings of FreedomDDC classification:
  • 331.1170975209034
LOC classification:
  • E445
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803 -- 1. "The Land Flows with Milk and Honey": Agriculture and Labor in the Early Republic -- 2. "A Strange Reverse of Fortune": Panic, Depression, and the Transformation of Labor -- 3. "There Are Objections to Black and White, but One Must Be Chosen": Managing Farms and Farmhands -- 4. ". . . How Much of Oursels We Owned": Finding Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line -- 5. "Chased Out on the Slippery Ice": Rural Wage Laborers in Antebellum Maryland -- Conclusion: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862 -- Notes -- Index -- back cover.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803 -- 1. "The Land Flows with Milk and Honey": Agriculture and Labor in the Early Republic -- 2. "A Strange Reverse of Fortune": Panic, Depression, and the Transformation of Labor -- 3. "There Are Objections to Black and White, but One Must Be Chosen": Managing Farms and Farmhands -- 4. ". . . How Much of Oursels We Owned": Finding Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line -- 5. "Chased Out on the Slippery Ice": Rural Wage Laborers in Antebellum Maryland -- Conclusion: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862 -- Notes -- Index -- back cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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