This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South.

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--

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger's radical n

This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical exp