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Between Slavery and Capitalism - The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South (Paperback)
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Between Slavery and Capitalism - The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South (Paperback)
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At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the
American South was the economic and social transition from slavery
to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin
Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals,
organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as
blacks and whites alike learned to navigate the shoals between two
different economic worlds. Analyzing trajectories among average
Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological
treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's
Black Reconstruction in America. In the aftermath of the Civil War,
uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting
the economic behavior and social status of former slaves,
Freedmen's Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians,
among others. Emancipation brought fundamental questions: How
should emancipated slaves be reimbursed in wage contracts? What
occupations and class positions would be open to blacks and whites?
What forms of agricultural tenure could persist? And what paths to
economic growth would be viable? To understand the escalating
uncertainty of the postbellum era, Ruef draws on a wide range of
qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand
interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs,
survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a
resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and Capitalism
identifies profound changes between the economic institutions of
the Old and New South and sheds new light on how the legacy of
emancipation continues to affect political discourse and race and
class relations today.
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