Scraping By Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore

Name: Scraping By Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore
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ISBN: 9780801890079

ISBN-10: 0801890071

ISBN-13: 9780801890079

Edition: 2009

Authors: Seth Rockman

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Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers. All navigated the low-end labor market in post-revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined the economic opportunities and vulnerabilities of working families in the early republic. In the era of Frederick Douglass, Baltimore's distinctive economy featured many slaves who earned wages and white workers who performed backbreaking labor. By focusing his study on this boomtown, Rockman reassesses the roles of race and region and rewrites the history of class and capitalism in the United…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Seth Rockman is an assistant professor of history at Brown University and author of Welfare Reform in the Early Republic.