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Author Grivno, Max L.

Title Gleanings of freedom : free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 / Max Grivno.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrations, map.
text file
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803 -- "The land flows with milk and honey" : agriculture and labor in the early republic -- "A strange reverse of fortune" : panic, depression, and the transformation of labor -- "There are objections to black and white, but one must be chosen" : managing farms and farmhands in antebellum Maryland -- " -- how much of oursels we owned" : finding freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line -- "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in antebellum Maryland -- Conclusion : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.
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Subject Slave labor -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
Slave labor.
Maryland.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Slavery -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
Freed persons -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
Freed persons.
Agricultural laborers -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century.
Agricultural laborers.
Mason-Dixon Line.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Grivno, Max L. Gleanings of freedom. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2011 9780252036521 (DLC) 2011041224 (OCoLC)719427880
ISBN 9780252093562 (electronic book)
0252093569 (electronic book)
9780252036521
0252036522
9781283989268
1283989263