Agricultural History
Volume 62, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 57-74

Planters, apprenticeship and forced labor: the black family under pressure in post-emancipation Maryland (Article)

Fuke R.P.
  • a Wilfred Laurier Univ., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5, Canada

Abstract

Despite many obstacles, post-emancipation black Marylanders set about first to shape the general conditions of their work and secondly to claim the labour of their children. Those who found fair-minded employers stayed in place and worked willingly; those who did not went elsewhere, often to the city. -after Author

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Maryland apprenticeship USA Blacks planters post-emancipation employers forced labour
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ISSN: 00021482
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English