Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 /
Grivno, Max L.
Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Slave labor
Slave labor
Slavery
African American agricultural laborers
African Americans
Agricultural laborers
Freedmen