Land and Labor, 1865

Land and Labor, 1865
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 2008
Genre: African Americans
ISBN:

This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.

Freedom

Freedom
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 968
Release: 2010-04-19
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780521132138

Freaks of Fortune

Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan Levy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674067207

Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions-insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets-while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortuneis one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.

Families and Freedom

Families and Freedom
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 1565844408

Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. By the editors of the award-winning "Free at Last". 36 illustrations.

Freedom

Freedom
Author:
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 988
Release: 1990
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780521394932

Freedom's Soldiers

Freedom's Soldiers
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521634496

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their own words and those of eyewitnesses.

Freedom's Journey

Freedom's Journey
Author: Donald Yacovone
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 1556525214

Presents a collection of primary documents by African Americans describing their experiences and perspectives of the Civil War.

Just Harvest

Just Harvest
Author: Greg Francis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1948677806

"Although Greg Francis is not a farmer, he planted a seed as a lead counsel in a groundbreaking class-action lawsuit that yielded the largest gain for Black farmers in U.S. history. Since the last slaves were freed in the United States more than a century ago, countless promises made to the Black community have been broken. The first, of course, was the pledge of 40 acres and a mule to each emancipated family. Without land to their name, achieving economic independence was a near impossibility, yet Black farmer persisted. At first, many labored under condition that replicated slavery until they became tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and ultimately landowners. Throughout the years, systemic discrimination and racism barred them from receiving government funds intended as much for them as for other farmers. Their land, livelihood, and very existence were threatened time and again. Just Harvest not only pays homage to all the Black farmers who fought to own the land they've worked for decades, but it also celebrates the largest civil rights settlement won on their behalf. When the first of two landmark class-action law suits secured restitution for only a fraction of the affected farmers, a second lawsuit was launched, yielding astounding results. Due to the efforts of Francis and other on the latter case, more than $1 billion dollars has been paid by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Black farmers for the injustices they suffered. In telling the story of Black farmers and their epic legal battle, Francis provides both personal and historical context. If you're American, these events should have personal and historical resonance for you too."--Page 2 of cover

Slaves No More

Slaves No More
Author: Ira Berlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1992-11-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521436922

Three essays present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War.