The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour The Lower South |
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Editor:
| Berlin, Ira Glymph, Thavolia Miller, Steven F. Reidy, Joseph P. Rowland, Leslie S. Saville, Julie |
Series title: | Freedom: a Documentary History of Emancipation Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-107-40578-3 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South.
Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South.