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

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

Julie Saville

240 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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 allo...

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