The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521362214)

In their efforts to achieve freedom, ex-slaves mounted a dual struggle to elude the personal domination of the old order and to blunt new coercions embedded in terms of emerging wage employment. This book draws on a rich documentary record to allow ex-slaves to express in their own words and behavior the aspirations that underlay their efforts. The author discusses the labor disputes that convulsed the post-Civil War South, in which can be read former slaves' critiques of both Southern slavery and Northern freedom.

Author: Julie Saville
ISBN-10: 0521362210
ISBN-13: 9780521362214
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/30/1994
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.24w x 0.81d