The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521566254)

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: 0521566258
ISBN-13: 9780521566254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1996
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.18w x 0.84d