Free Labor in an Unfree World White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 |
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| Author:
| Gillespie, Michele |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-2670-2 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2004 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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In the first book-length study of white tradespeople in the pre-Civil War South, Gillespie highlights the complex world of a nearly hidden population marginalized by a growing slave system. She demonstrates that the appearance of solidarity in the white antebellum South was false and that class conflicts threatened to divide white southern society.
In the first book-length study of white tradespeople in the pre-Civil War South, Gillespie highlights the complex world of a nearly hidden population marginalized by a growing slave system. She demonstrates that the appearance of solidarity in the white antebellum South was false and that class conflicts threatened to divide white southern society.