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1992

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Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford Sep 1992

Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford

Edna Greene Medford

Until quite recently, most of what we knew about antebellum slavery and the African-American experience in the postwar years resulted from generalizations regarding the cotton South. The tendency to focus on the heart of Dixie failed to take into account certain economic realities in the Upper South that shaped experiences under slavery and influenced freedpeople's adaptation to a new order.


Work Begins Today: Quaker Volunteers In Depression-Era Kentucky, 1933, Edmund F. Wehrle Jan 1992

Work Begins Today: Quaker Volunteers In Depression-Era Kentucky, 1933, Edmund F. Wehrle

Edmund F. Wehrle

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