Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900

by Sharon Ann Holt

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were. In Making Freedom Pay, Sharon Ann Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in this ravaged region and hostile time. Without ignoring the crushing burdens of a system that denied blacks justice and civil rights, Holt shows how many black men and women were able to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820324426
• ISBN13: 9780820324425
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Condition

Making Freedom Pay by Holt was a used book in very good condition. It had some pencil underlining but that was included in the description prior to purchase. Other than that it looks new. Arrived on time as well. Very good book for geneology work.