Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865

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Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants—former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others—reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive ...

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Overview

Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants—former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others—reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.

In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation, former slaves seeking to ground their liberty in economic independence came into conflict with former owners determined to keep them dependent and subordinate. Overseeing that conflict were northern officials with their own notions of freedom, labor, and social order. This volume of Freedom depicts the dramatic events that ensued—the eradication of bondage and the contest over restoring land to ex-Confederates; the introduction of labor contracts and the day-to-day struggles that engulfed the region's plantations, farms, and other workplaces; the achievements of those freedpeople who attained a measure of independence; and rumors of a year-end insurrection in which ex-slaves would seize the land they had been denied and exact revenge for past oppression.

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"Provide[s] the reader with a panoramic view of the complexities of emancipation. . . . Key documents provide new insights into the mind and mood of the formerly enslaved regarding their new status. . . . A major new contribution to serious scholarship in the several related fields of Civil War, Reconstruction, and emancipation."
-Louisiana History

"[A] magnificent collection."
-Journal of Southern History

"One of the great editorial achievements of modern scholarship."
-Journal of Peasant Studies

"One cannot imagine scholars dealing with Reconstruction nationally, or the post-bellum history of any Southern state, without close attention to this work."
-H-Net Reviews

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780807831472
  • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
  • Publication date: 11/1/2008
  • Pages: 1112
  • Product dimensions: 6.60 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 2.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Leslie S. Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.

Steven F. Miller is coeditor of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland.

Leslie S. Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland and director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project.

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Table of Contents

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION The Records The Freedmen and Southern Society Project

EDITORIAL METHOD Elements of a Document

SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS Editorial Symbols Symbols Used to Describe Manuscripts Abbreviations for Record Groups in the National Archives of the United States Short Titles Military and Other Abbreviations

LAND AND LABOR, 1865

CHAPTER 1 The Novel Condition of Freedom CHAPTER 2 Overseeing Freedom CHAPTER 3 Coming to Terms CHAPTER 4 The Land Question CHAPTER 5 Points of Contention CHAPTER 6 Dependency and Relief CHAPTER 7 Measures of Independence CHAPTER 8 Settling Up CHAPTER 9 Specters of Insurrection CHAPTER 10 Lessons Learned

INDEX

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