Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867 Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation Series
Langue : Anglais
Coordonnateurs : Berlin Ira, Glymph Thavolia, Miller Steven F., Reidy Joseph P., Rowland Leslie S., Saville Julie
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This 1991 volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Lower South.
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.
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editorial method; Symbols and abbreviations; 1. Low country South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; 2. Southern Louisiana; 3. The Mississippi Valley; Index.
Date de parution : 07-2012
Ouvrage de 976 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
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