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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 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.
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Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations used in notes; A note on spellings; Maps; Introduction; Part I. Freedom Versus Freedom: Competing Visions of Emancipation: 1. Antebellum field slaves' labor: regional overviews; 2. Twilight of slavery, dawn of freedom; 3. Rebels and 'rebels in disguise'; Part II. A Measure of Freedom: Plantation Workers and the Wartime Introduction of Wage Labor in Port Royal: 4. Eluding the confederacy's grasp; 5. Inducing wage labor behind federal lines; 6. Wartime planting; 7. 'A dollar a task'; 8. 'As hard times as they has see with the rebel'; Part III. Restoration and Reaction: The Struggle for Land in the Sherman Reserve; Part IV. The Reconstruction of Work: 9. Remaking family life and labor in the interior; 10. Control of the crop; 11. Control of supplemental plots; 12. Working on shares; 13. Holding onto land and time in the low country; 14. Uncertain harvests: seasonalization of agricultural employment; Part V. The Work of Reconstruction: 15. Light in August; 16. 'Why can't we be friends?'; 17. 'There's a meeting here tonight'; 18. A perfect system?; 19. 'On duty' in the league; 20. 'We the laboring men out of doors'; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.