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Hirelings : African American workers and free labor in early Maryland / Jennifer Hull Dorsey.
LIBRA E185.93.M2 D67 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dorsey, Jennifer Hull, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans--Employment--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.
- Free African Americans--Employment--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.
- Agricultural laborers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Agricultural laborers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.
- African American agricultural laborers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--18th century.
- African American agricultural laborers.
- African American agricultural laborers--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Economic aspects--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.).
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Economic aspects.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Wage payment systems--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History.
- Wage payment systems.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Familiar with histories of family relations, religious institutions, social organizations, and political activism, Dorsey (history, Siena College, NY) identified a gap in the scholarship regarding freed slaves in the northern states between 1780 and 1804. She turned her attention to their working lives, focusing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland because of its large, rapidly expanding population of freed Blacks during that era. Her study investigates work, migration, family, and community, with attention to strategies employed to avoid employers' manipulation and control and to build and maintain lives as free workers in a slave society. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Work
- Migration
- Family
- Dependency
- Community
- Recession.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801447785
- 080144778X
- OCLC:
- 683247749
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