American Work
Subtitle: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780393318333
First sentence: In the eyes of Captain John Smith, early seventeenth-century Virginia offered up a perverse paradise of sorts, a bountiful Eden where, nevertheless, English men, women, and children could earn their bread-and a dry coarse cornbread at that-only by the sweat of their brow.