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The Work of Reconstruction : From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870
The Work of Reconstruction From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 18601870
Author: Julie Saville
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. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521362214
ISBN-10: 0521362210
Publication Date: 9/30/1994
Pages: 239
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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