Gleanings of freedom
Subtitle: free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
By: Max Grivno
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780252036521
Subjects: Slave labor; Freedmen; Agricultural laborers; Slavery; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803; title: "The land flows with milk and honey" : agriculture and labor in the early republic; title: "A strange reverse of fortune" : panic, depression, and the transformation of labor; title: "There are objections to black and white, but one must be chosen" : managing farms and farmhands in antebellum Maryland; title: "; title: how much of oursels we owned" : finding freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line; title: "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in antebellum Maryland; title: Conclusion : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.