Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 (Working Class in American History) - Softcover

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Grivno, Max

 
9780252080470: Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 (Working Class in American History)
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ISBN 10: 0252080475 ISBN 13: 9780252080470
Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason-Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.

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About the Author

Max Grivno is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252080475
ISBN 13 
9780252080470
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296

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