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005			20240726105449.0
008			101111s2011 nyuab ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780801460678 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aE185 _b.H574 2011
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDorsey, Jennifer Hull, _d1969- _e1
245	1	0	_aHirelings : _bAfrican American workers and free labor in early Maryland / _cJennifer Hull Dorsey.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2011.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 210 pages) : _billustrations, maps
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
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505	0	0	_aWork -- _tMigration -- _tFamily -- _tDependency -- _tCommunity -- _tRecession.
520	0		_aIn Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing new identities, associations, and communities in the early nineteenth century. Free Africans and their descendants had lived in Maryland since the seventeenth century, but before the American Revolution they were always few in number and lacking in economic resources or political leverage. By contrast, manumitted and freeborn African Americans in the early republic refashioned the Eastern Shore's economy and society, earning their livings as wage laborers while establishing thriving African American communities. As free workers in a slave society, these African Americans contested the legitimacy of the slave system even while they remained dependent laborers. They limited white planters' authority over their time and labor by reuniting their families in autonomous households, settling into free black neighborhoods, negotiating labor contracts that suited the needs of their households, and worshipping in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some moved to the cities, but many others migrated between employers as a strategy for meeting their needs and thwarting employers' control. They demonstrated that independent and free African American communities could thrive on their own terms. In all of these actions the free black workers of the Eastern Shore played a pivotal role in ongoing debates about the merits of a free labor system.
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650		0	_aFree African Americans _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aFree African Americans _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aFree African Americans _xEmployment _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aFree African Americans _xEmployment _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAgricultural laborers _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aAgricultural laborers _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAfrican American agricultural laborers _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aAfrican American agricultural laborers _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xEmancipation _xEconomic aspects _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
650		0	_aWage payment systems _zEastern Shore (Md. and Va.) _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=673652&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell