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

Author/Contributor(s):	Gillespie, Michele
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	09/06/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In the first book-length study of white tradespeople in the pre-Civil War South, Gillespie highlights the complex world of a nearly hidden population marginalized by a growing slave system. She demonstrates that the appearance of solidarity in the white antebellum South was false and that class conflicts threatened to divide white southern society.