Hirelings : African American workers and free labor in early Maryland / Jennifer Hull Dorsey.

Hirelings : African American workers and free labor in early Maryland /

In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of i...

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Main Author: Dorsey, Jennifer Hull, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Free African Americans > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
Free African Americans > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Employment > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
Free African Americans > Employment > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 19th century.
Agricultural laborers > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
Agricultural laborers > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 19th century.
African American agricultural laborers > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century.
African American agricultural laborers > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Economic aspects > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
Wage payment systems > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History.
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