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Gleanings of freedom free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
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Gleanings of freedom [electronic resource] : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.
ISBN
0252093569
9780252093562
0252036522 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252036521 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 269 p. :) : ill., map ;.
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Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement II.
Project MUSE - UPCC Archive History Supplement II.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2014
Series
The working class in American history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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