Making Freedom Pay

North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865-1900

Sharon Ann Holt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2003
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-2442-5 (ISBN)

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This text reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing Central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in a ravaged region and hostile time. It has a micro-economic history of Gainville County, drawn from public records, that looks at individual's stories.

How freedpeople in North Carolina built rewarding lives in spite of legal and social disadvantages; In Making Freedom Pay, Sharon Ann Holt reconstructs how freed men and women in tobacco-growing central North Carolina worked to secure a place for themselves in a ravaged region and hostile time. Her micro-economic history of Granville County, North Carolina, drawn extensively from public records, assembles stories of individual lives from the initial days of emancipation to the turn of the century. Making Freedom Pay uses these highly personalized accounts of the day-to-day travails and victories of ordinary people to tell a nationally significant story of grassroots uplift.

Sharon Ann Holt has taught history, women's studies, and urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Rutgers University, Camden, and Bryn Mawr College. She is a recipient of the Southern Historical Association's Greene-Ramsdell Prize.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2003
Zusatzinfo	5 tables, 5 figures
Verlagsort	Georgia
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-8203-2442-6 / 0820324426
ISBN-13	978-0-8203-2442-5 / 9780820324425
Zustand	Neuware