{"product_id":"the-work-of-reconstruction-from-slave-to-wage-laborer-in-south-carolina-1860-1870-hardback-9780521362214","title":"The Work of Reconstruction; From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860–1870 (Hardback) 9780521362214","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Work of Reconstruction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina 1860–1870\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe author uncovers former slaves' critiques of both Southern slavery and Northern freedom.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJulie Saville (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521362214, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 1994\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 4 b\/w illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.471 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"What sets this book apart in the Reconstruction field is its primary focus on rural black workers and the processes between them and landowners. Deeply rooted in primary sources...Saville's labour history of emacipation...is usually convincing, consistently engaging, and uncoomonly valuable.\"    John T. O'Brien, Labour\/Le Travail\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book examines social, political, and cultural conflicts opened by the abolition of slavery and the fashioning of wage relations in the era of the American Civil War. It offers a new, close look at the origins, goals, and tactics of popular political clubs created by emancipated workers in the countryside of one of the Deep South's oldest plantation states. The Work of Reconstruction draws on a rich documentary record that allowed ex-slaves to express in their own words and behavior the aspirations and goals that underlay their efforts. Not satisfied to render freed men and women as objects of theoretical inquiry, this book vividly recovers the concrete practices and language in which ex-slaves achieved freedom and the expectations that they had of liberty.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations used in notes\u003cbr\u003e A note on spellings\u003cbr\u003e Maps\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Freedom Versus Freedom: Competing Visions of Emancipation: 1. Antebellum field slaves' labor: regional overviews\u003cbr\u003e 2. Twilight of slavery, dawn of freedom\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rebels and 'rebels in disguise'\u003cbr\u003e Part II. A Measure of Freedom: Plantation Workers and the Wartime Introduction of Wage Labor in Port Royal: 4. Eluding the confederacy's grasp\u003cbr\u003e 5. Inducing wage labor behind federal lines\u003cbr\u003e 6. Wartime planting\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'A dollar a task'\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'As hard times as they has see with the rebel'\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Restoration and Reaction: The Struggle for Land in the Sherman Reserve\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Reconstruction of Work: 9. Remaking family life and labor in the interior\u003cbr\u003e 10. Control of the crop\u003cbr\u003e 11. Control of supplemental plots\u003cbr\u003e 12. Working on shares\u003cbr\u003e 13. Holding onto land and time in the low country\u003cbr\u003e 14. Uncertain harvests: seasonalization of agricultural employment\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The Work of Reconstruction: 15. Light in August\u003cbr\u003e 16. 'Why can't we be friends?'\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'There's a meeting here tonight'\u003cbr\u003e 18. A perfect system?\u003cbr\u003e 19. 'On duty' in the league\u003cbr\u003e 20. 'We the laboring men out of doors'\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Modern%20history%20to%2020th%20century:%20c%201700%20to%20c%201900%20%5BHBLL%5D%22\"\u003eHBLL\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007133110552,"sku":"9780521362214","price":79.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521362214_29105332-9d3a-4ab4-b583-493e1b1abb09.gif?v=1691375715","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-work-of-reconstruction-from-slave-to-wage-laborer-in-south-carolina-1860-1870-hardback-9780521362214","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}