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Title Terms of labor : slavery, serfdom, and free labor / edited by Stanley L. Engerman.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 350 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Making of modern freedom
Making of modern freedom.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index.
Contents Introduction / Stanley L. Engerman. -- Slavery and freedom in the early modern world / David Eltis. -- Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases / Seymour Drescher. -- After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective / Peter Kolchin. -- From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labor system in nineteenth-century America / Leon Fink. -- Changing legal conceptions of free labor / Robert J. Steinfeld. -- Race, labor, and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest / David Roediger. -- "We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work": freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation / Amy Dru Stanley. -- Free labor, law, and American trade unionism / David Brody. -- Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream / Clayne Pope.
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Subject Slavery -- History -- Congresses.
Slavery.
History.
Labor -- History -- Congresses.
Labor.
Contract labor -- History -- Congresses.
Contract labor.
Labor movement -- History -- Congresses.
Labor movement.
Civil rights -- History -- Congresses.
Civil rights.
Liberty -- History -- Congresses.
Liberty.
Labor -- History.
Slavery -- History.
Serfdom -- History.
Serfdom.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Engerman, Stanley L.
Other Form: Print version: Terms of labor. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999 0804735212 (DLC) 98041714 (OCoLC)39778734
ISBN 058506282X (electronic book)
9780585062822 (electronic book)
0804735212