The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860 1870

By Julie Saville

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521566258
• ISBN13: 9780521566254
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"