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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation #02: Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867

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Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. Among the topics addressed are the dispossession of settlers in the Sherman reserve, the reordering of labor on plantation and farm, nonagricultural labor, new relations of credit and debt, long-distance labor migration, and the efforts of former slaves to rent, purchase, and homestead land. The documents--many of them in the freedpeople's own words--speak eloquently for themselves, while the editors' interpretive essays provide context and illuminate major themes.

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Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. The documents--many of them in the freedpeople's own words--speak eloquently for themselves, while the editors' interpretive essays provide context and illuminate major themes.
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Rene Hayden is an independent scholar in Washington, D.C. Anthony E. Kaye is associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. Kate Masur is associate professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. Steven F. Miller is coeditor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. Susan E. O'Donovan is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis.
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ISBN:
9781469607429
Author:
Hayden, Rene (edt)
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Author:
O'Donovan, Susan E.
Author:
Masur, Kate
Author:
Kaye, Anthony E.
Author:
Miller, Steven F.
Author:
Hayden, Rene
Subject:
African American Studies
Subject:
emancipation in the US
Subject:
dispossession
Subject:
Sherman-land
Subject:
history of emancipation
Subject:
freedpeople and labor
Subject:
freed slaves and labor
Subject:
Sharecropping.
Subject:
freed slaves family life
Subject:
René Hayden
Subject:
Anthony E. Kaye
Subject:
Kate Masur
Subject:
Steven F. Miller
Subject:
Susan E. O Donovan
Subject:
Leslie S. Rowland
Subject:
Stephen A. West /
Subject:
African American Studies-General
Copyright:
2013
Series Volume:
Series 3, Volume 2:
Publication Date:
20130819
Binding:
Hardback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
13 halftones
Pages:
1096
Dimensions:
9.25 x 6.125 in
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"Synopsis" by , Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. The documents--many of them in the freedpeople's own words--speak eloquently for themselves, while the editors' interpretive essays provide context and illuminate major themes.
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