Working Class in American History
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Working Class in American History

Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

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Working Class in American History

Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

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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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Year
2011
ISBN
9780252093562

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803
  8. 1. “The Land Flows with Milk and Honey”: Agriculture and Labor in the Early Republic
  9. 2. “A Strange Reverse of Fortune”: Panic, Depression, and the Transformation of Labor
  10. 3. “There Are Objections to Black and White, but One Must Be Chosen”: Managing Farms and Farmhands in Antebellum Maryland
  11. 4. “… How Much of Oursels We Owned”: Finding Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line
  12. 5. “Chased Out on the Slippery Ice”: Rural Wage Laborers in Antebellum Maryland
  13. Conclusion: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862
  14. Notes
  15. Index