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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 - Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 (Paperback): Steven Hahn,... Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 - Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865 (Paperback)
Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, John C. Rodrigue
R2,150 Discovery Miles 21 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants-former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes. In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation, former slaves seeking to ground their liberty in economic independence came into conflict with former owners determined to keep them dependent and subordinate. Overseeing that conflict were northern officials with their own notions of freedom, labor, and social order. This volume of Freedom depicts the dramatic events that ensued-the eradication of bondage and the contest over restoring land to ex-Confederates; the introduction of labor contracts and the day-to-day struggles that engulfed the region's plantations, farms, and other workplaces; the achievements of those freedpeople who attained a measure of independence; and rumors of a year-end insurrection in which ex-slaves would seize the land they had been denied and exact revenge for past oppression.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 - Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (Hardcover, New... Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 - Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (Hardcover, New edition)
Susan E. O'Donovan
R3,834 Discovery Miles 38 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Land and Labor, 1866-1867 examines the remaking of the South's labor system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labor, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land. Among the topics addressed are the dispossession of settlers in the Sherman reserve, the reordering of labor on plantation and farm, nonagricultural labor, new relations of credit and debt, long-distance labor migration, and the efforts of former slaves to rent, purchase, and homestead land. The documents--many of them in the freed people's own words--speak eloquently for themselves, while the editors' interpretive essays provide context and illuminate major themes.

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