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Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore

By Seth Rockman
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By Seth Rockman
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Co—winner, 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University and the Labor and Working—Class History AssociationWinner, 2010 H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association

Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native—born street sweepers all navigated the low—end labor market in post—Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this divers...