Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1883
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York; Oxford, 1989
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ix, [3], 351 p.: tables; 20 cm. Paperback. The author, Professor of Economics at Yale University, drew heavily on the documents of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105 in the National Archives. In Near Fine Condition: back cover and pages are slightly browning along edges; otherwise, clean and tight.
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- Title
- Branches Without Roots: Genesis of the Black Working Class in the American South, 1862-1883
- Author
- Jaynes, Gerald David
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York; Oxford
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195055756
- ISBN 13
- 9780195055757
- Seller catalogs
- American History, Business & Economics, Race & Ethnicity
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Makes a valuable contribution to understanding the slaves' passage from bondage to the free working class. (Journal of Interdisciplinary History)
If this book did no more than show that the South's underdeveloped capital markets were preconditions for economic failure, it would be a very good book indeed. But Jaynes accomplishes much more....He has read widely in the literature on slavery and emancipation and mined the exhaustive records of the Freedman's Bureau. Economic shrewdness is mixed with common sense. His book thus carries authority....A very good book, maybe a seminal one in the history of the black working class in the South during its early years of freedom. It deserves the widest possible readership. (American Historical Review)
A highly significant book. (Journal of Social History)
An insightful and original analysis of the transition from slavery to freedom and its effects on the southern economy. (Journal of Southern History)
An extraordinary contribution...brilliant in its insightful and sensitive use of literary and statistical evidence, in its application of quantitative methods to clarify rather than obscure, in its reach to analytical models drawn from other cultures, both ancient and modern, and in its shrewd handling of historiographical issues. (Choice)
A model of social science research...a major contribution toward ending historians' debates over central issues of the Reconstruction. (American Journal of Economics and Sociology)
[An] original and provocative reinterpretation....Those who want to ponder the real economic meaning of freedom for American blacks will find Branches Without Roots indispensable. (Journal of Economic Literature)
Branches Without Roots has greatly enhanced my understanding of what was really happening during the process of Reconstruction. [It] show[s] with rich detail the nature of the material and intellectual environment in which the emancipated slaves were expected to make their way. (David B. Davis, Yale University)
A most impressive piece of scholarship. It is really a major step forward in an important debate and will have a big impact on subsequent scholars. (Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester)
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