Freedom - Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861 1867

This 1991 volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Lower South.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Editorial method; Symbols and abbreviations; 1. Low country South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; 2. Southern Louisiana; 3. The Mississippi Valley; Index.

Summary

Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ira Berlin (Editor), Thavolia Glymph (Editor), Steven F. Miller (Editor), Leslie S. Rowland (Editor), Julie Saville (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2012
• EAN: 9780521394932
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39493-2
• No. of pages: 976
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 61 mm
• Weight: 1704 g
• Series: Freedom: A Documentary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous