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Title Land and labor, 1866-1867 / edited by René Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, Kate Masur, Steven F. Miller, Susan E. O'Donovan, Leslie S. Rowland and Stephen A. West.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series A documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 3, v. 2
Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 3, v. 2.
Note The source of all the documents published in the Freedom series is the United States National Archives and Records Administration.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Enforcing free labor -- Possession and dispossession -- Labor on plantation and farm -- Nonagricultural labor -- Labor and family life -- Commerce, credit, and debt -- Dependency and relief -- Workers on the move -- In search of landed independence.
Summary This volume examines the remaking of the South's labour system in the tumultuous aftermath of emancipation. Using documents selected from the National Archives, this volume depicts the struggle of unenfranchised and impoverished ex-slaves to control their own labour, establish their families as viable economic units, and secure independent possession of land.
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Subject Freed persons -- Southern States -- History -- Sources.
Freed persons.
Southern States.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Freed persons -- Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Sources.
Economic conditions.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Sources.
African Americans.
Chronological Term 1863-1877
Subject African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
African Americans -- Land tenure.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Employment -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
African Americans -- Employment.
Southern States -- History -- 1865-1877 -- Sources.
Chronological Term 1865-1877
Subject Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Race relations.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Hayden, René, editor.
Kaye, Anthony E., editor.
Masur, Kate, editor.
Miller, Steven F., editor.
O'Donovan, Susan E., editor.
Rowland, Leslie S., editor.
West, Stephen A., 1965- editor.
United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission, sponsoring body.
United States. National Archives and Records Administration.
Other Form: Print version: Land and labor, 1866-1867. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2013 9781469607429 (DLC) 2013004095 (OCoLC)828193669
ISBN 9781469611099 (electronic book)
1469611090 (electronic book)
9781469607429
1469607425