A01=Max Grivno
African American
apprentices
Author_Max Grivno
Baltimore
black
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Category=NHTS
class
economy
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family
farmers
free
freedom
hired workers
history
indentured servants
labor
Maryland
Mason-Dixon Line
planters
poor
race relations
rural
slave
slave trade
slavery
south
studies
Upper South
wheat
working
Product details
- ISBN 9780252080470
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2014
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.
Max Grivno is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi.
