Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860

by Max Grivno

Book Overview

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason-Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036522
• ISBN13: 9780252036521
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"