03498nam 2200757 a 450 991096143450332120240417222720.09780252093562025209356997812839892681283989263(CKB)2550000000996620(EBL)3414207(SSID)ssj0000821985(PQKBManifestationID)11464460(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821985(PQKBWorkID)10755831(PQKB)11709993(MiAaPQ)EBC3414207(StDuBDS)EDZ0000649229(OCoLC)826443590(MdBmJHUP)muse25161(Au-PeEL)EBL3414207(CaPaEBR)ebr10653972(CaONFJC)MIL430176(OCoLC)923496971(Perlego)2532655(EXLCZ)99255000000099662020111006d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGleanings of freedom free and slave labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860 /Max Grivno1st ed.Urbana University of Illinois Pressc20111 online resource (298 p.)The working class in American historyDescription based upon print version of record.9780252080470 0252080475 9780252036521 0252036522 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803 -- "The land flows with milk and honey" : agriculture and labor in the early republic -- "A strange reverse of fortune" : panic, depression, and the transformation of labor -- "There are objections to black and white, but one must be chosen" : managing farms and farmhands in antebellum Maryland -- " -- how much of oursels we owned" : finding freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line -- "Chased out on the slippery ice" : rural wage laborers in antebellum Maryland -- Conclusion : Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.Late 18th- and early 19th-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labour population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. The Upper South during this period presents a unique perspective on how free and slave labour systems coexisted and interacted during a time when slavery and free labour were moving apart both geographically and ideologically. This work 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 in the decades preceding the Civil War.Working class in American history.Slave laborMarylandHistory19th centurySlaveryMarylandHistory19th centuryFreed personsMarylandHistory19th centuryAgricultural laborersMarylandHistory19th centuryMason-Dixon LineSlave laborHistorySlaveryHistoryFreed personsHistoryAgricultural laborersHistory305.5/63Grivno Max L1805999MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961434503321Gleanings of freedom4354909UNINA