Abstract
Acknowledgements List of abbreviations used in notes A note on spellings Maps Introduction Part I. Freedom Versus Freedom: Competing Visions of Emancipation: 1. Antebellum field slaves' labor: regional overviews 2. Twilight of slavery, dawn of freedom 3. Rebels and 'rebels in disguise' Part II. A Measure of Freedom: Plantation Workers and the Wartime Introduction of Wage Labor in Port Royal: 4. Eluding the confederacy's grasp 5. Inducing wage labor behind federal lines 6. Wartime planting 7. 'A dollar a task' 8. 'As hard times as they has see with the rebel' Part III. Restoration and Reaction: The Struggle for Land in the Sherman Reserve Part IV. The Reconstruction of Work: 9. Remaking family life and labor in the interior 10. Control of the crop 11. Control of supplemental plots 12. Working on shares 13. Holding onto land and time in the low country 14. Uncertain harvests: seasonalization of agricultural employment Part V. The Work of Reconstruction: 15. Light in August 16. 'Why can't we be friends?' 17. 'There's a meeting here tonight' 18. A perfect system? 19. 'On duty' in the league 20. 'We the laboring men out of doors' Afterword Bibliography Index.
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