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Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South - A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Paperback, New)
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Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South - A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Paperback, New)
Series: Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
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Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War
forced federal officials to confront questions about the social
order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first
published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence
of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the
Union-occupied Lower South. The documents illustrate the
experiences of former slaves as military laborers, as residents of
federally sponsored 'contraband camps', as wage laborers on
plantations and in towns, and, in some instances, as independent
farmers and self-employed workers. Together with the editors'
interpretative essays, these documents portray the different
understandings of freedom advanced by the many participants in the
wartime evolution of free labor - former slaves and free blacks;
former slaveholders; Union military officers and officials in
Washington; and Northern planters, ministers and teachers. The war
sealed the fate of slavery only to open a contest over the meaning
of freedom. This volume documents an important chapter of that
contest.
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