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Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South
Language: en
Pages: 830
Authors: Ira Berlin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-11-26 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.
Land and Labor, 1865
Language: en
Pages: 1168
Authors:
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--
Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 968
Authors: Ira Berlin
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Freaks of Fortune
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Jonathan Levy
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-29 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the st
Families and Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Ira Berlin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: The New Press

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Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tum