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Land and labor, 1866-1867 / edited by René Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, Kate Masur, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, Leslie S. Rowland and Stephen A. West.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 3, v. 2.Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469611099
  • 1469611090
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Land and labor, 1866-1867.DDC classification:
  • 973.7/14 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.2 .L27 2013eb
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Contents:
Enforcing free labor -- Possession and dispossession -- Labor on plantation and farm -- Nonagricultural labor -- Labor and family life -- Commerce, credit, and debt -- Dependency and relief -- Workers on the move -- In search of landed independence.
Summary: This volume examines the remaking of the South's labour system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labour, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land.
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The source of all the documents published in the Freedom series is the United States National Archives and Records Administration.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Enforcing free labor -- Possession and dispossession -- Labor on plantation and farm -- Nonagricultural labor -- Labor and family life -- Commerce, credit, and debt -- Dependency and relief -- Workers on the move -- In search of landed independence.

This volume examines the remaking of the South's labour system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labour, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land.

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