Rene Hayden (ed.) et al.
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2013
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9781469611099
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9781469607429
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Hayden, René, 'Labor on Plantation and Farm', in Rene Hayden, Anthony E. Kaye, and Kate Masur (eds), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867: Series 3, Volume 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (
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This chapter looks at the types of employment former slaves occupied. With few economic resources available to them, the majority of former slaves in the rural South could only really gain an income working on a plantation or farm. They did, however, enjoy the right to be choosey about which employer to work for. Freedpeople seeking to enlarge their freedom confronted former slaveholders bent on constraining it as narrowly as possible. Employers sought to squeeze all they could from the former slaves they employed.
Keywords: former slaves, economic resources, rural South, plantation, farm, former slaveholders, freedpeople
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Civil War and Reconstruction US History Slavery and Abolition of Slavery African American History
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