| The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860-1870 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Saville, Julie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521566258 ISBN-13: 9780521566254 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: The Work of Reconstruction draws on a rich documentary record, in which ex-slaves express in their own words and behavior the aspirations and goals that underlay their efforts. Not satisfied to render freed men and women as objects of theoretical inquiry, this book vividly recovers the concrete practices and language in which ex-slaves achieved freedom and the expectations that they had of liberation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 331.639 |
| LCCN: 93047430 |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.18" W x 9.29" (1.02 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |