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--

Contains primary source material.

Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil Wa

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Dou