Between Slavery and Capitalism : The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South / Martin Ruef.

Date:
2014
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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xvii, 285 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 25 cm

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Published by Princeton University Press.
This book has been composed in Sabon Next.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.

Contents

Institutional Transformation and Uncertainty -- Constructing a Free Labor Market -- Status Attainment among Emancipated Slaves -- Class Structure in the Old and New South -- The Demise of the Plantation -- Credit and Trade in the New South -- Paths to Development -- Emancipation in Comparative Perspective.

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Jacket Photograph: View of a woman washing clothes, from the Federal Writers' Project, ca. 1937–1938. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USz62-125152.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

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  • 9780691162775
  • 9781400852642