Making freedom pay
Subtitle: North Carolina freedpeople working for themselves, 1865-1900
By: Sharon Ann Holt.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: African Americans -- North Carolina -- Granville County -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; African Americans -- Employment -- North Carolina -- Granville County -- History -- 19th century.; Granville County (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Description: "In Making Freedom Pay, Sharon Ann Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in this ravaged region and hostile time. Without ignoring the crushing burdens of a system that denied blacks justice and civil rights, Holt shows that many black men and women were able to fulfill their hopes through determined collective efforts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165) and index.