Making freedom pay : North Carolina freedpeople working for themselves, 1865-1900 / Sharon Ann Holt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holt, Sharon Ann, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Employment--North Carolina--Granville County--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--North Carolina--Granville County--Economic conditions--19th century.

Granville County (N.C.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Granville County (N.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were. In Making Freedom Pay, Sharon Ann Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in this ravaged region and hostile time. Without ignoring the crushing burdens of a system that denied blacks justice and civil rights, Holt shows how many black men and women were able to realize their hopes through determined collective efforts. Holt's microeconomic history of Granville County, North Carolina, drawn extensively from public records, assembles stories of individual lives from the initial days of emancipation to the turn of the century. Making Freedom Pay uses these highly personalized accounts of the day-to-day travails and victories of ordinary people to tell a nationally significant story of extraordinary grassroots uplift. That racist terrorism and Jim Crow legislation substantially crushed and silenced them in no way trivializes the significance of their achievements.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ONE: An Escape Clause: Farm Tenancy and the Household Economy

TWO: Split Rails and a Sorrel Horse: Managing Debt through Household Production

THREE: The New North Star: The Quest for a Farm

FOUR: Building Up the People: The Struggle over Church and School

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-179) and index.

ISBN:

9781282725997

1282725998

9780820327198

0820327190

OCLC:

608691564