Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 by Michele Gillespie

Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860

Michele Gillespie

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White male artisans in the antebellum South occupied a marginal and ambiguous social and professional position very unlike that of their northern counterparts. As skilled, free laborers in a slaveholding society, they did not fit into a defined so...

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