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Between Slavery and Capitalism : The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South / Martin Ruef.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries onlyDescription: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 30 line illus. 27 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691162775
  • 9781400852642
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.714 23
LOC classification:
  • E453
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Institutional Transformation and Uncertainty -- 2. Constructing a Free Labor Market -- 3. Status Attainment among Emancipated Slaves -- 4. Class Structure in the Old and New South -- 5. The Demise of the Plantation -- 6. Credit and Trade in the New South -- 7. Credit and Trade in the New South -- 8. Emancipation in Comparative Perspective -- Appendix A. Data Sources and Sampling -- Appendix B. Idiosyncrasy -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike learned to navigate the shoals between two different economic worlds. Analyzing trajectories among average Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America.In the aftermath of the Civil War, uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting the economic behavior and social status of former slaves, Freedmen's Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians, among others. Emancipation brought fundamental questions: How should emancipated slaves be reimbursed in wage contracts? What occupations and class positions would be open to blacks and whites? What forms of agricultural tenure could persist? And what paths to economic growth would be viable? To understand the escalating uncertainty of the postbellum era, Ruef draws on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs, survey responses, census records, and credit reports.Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and Capitalism identifies profound changes between the economic institutions of the Old and New South and sheds new light on how the legacy of emancipation continues to affect political discourse and race and class relations today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Institutional Transformation and Uncertainty -- 2. Constructing a Free Labor Market -- 3. Status Attainment among Emancipated Slaves -- 4. Class Structure in the Old and New South -- 5. The Demise of the Plantation -- 6. Credit and Trade in the New South -- 7. Credit and Trade in the New South -- 8. Emancipation in Comparative Perspective -- Appendix A. Data Sources and Sampling -- Appendix B. Idiosyncrasy -- Notes -- References -- Index

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At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike learned to navigate the shoals between two different economic worlds. Analyzing trajectories among average Southerners, this is perhaps the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in America.In the aftermath of the Civil War, uncertainty was a pervasive feature of life in the South, affecting the economic behavior and social status of former slaves, Freedmen's Bureau agents, planters, merchants, and politicians, among others. Emancipation brought fundamental questions: How should emancipated slaves be reimbursed in wage contracts? What occupations and class positions would be open to blacks and whites? What forms of agricultural tenure could persist? And what paths to economic growth would be viable? To understand the escalating uncertainty of the postbellum era, Ruef draws on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs, survey responses, census records, and credit reports.Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and Capitalism identifies profound changes between the economic institutions of the Old and New South and sheds new light on how the legacy of emancipation continues to affect political discourse and race and class relations today.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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