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Gleanings of Freedom
Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
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About this book
Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.
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Publisher
University of Illinois PressYear
2011Print ISBN
9780252080470
9780252036521
eBook ISBN
9780252093562
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803
- 1. “The Land Flows with Milk and Honey”: Agriculture and Labor in the Early Republic
- 2. “A Strange Reverse of Fortune”: Panic, Depression, and the Transformation of Labor
- 3. “There Are Objections to Black and White, but One Must Be Chosen”: Managing Farms and Farmhands in Antebellum Maryland
- 4. “… How Much of Oursels We Owned”: Finding Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line
- 5. “Chased Out on the Slippery Ice”: Rural Wage Laborers in Antebellum Maryland
- Conclusion: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862
- Notes
- Index
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