Free Labor in an Unfree World White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
Description:
Documenting, among other features, how the hegemony of slavery thwarted efforts to organize a white working class in the South prior to the Civil War, Gillespie (history, Wake Forest U.) explains how skilled free laborers in Georgia did not fit into a defined social class as did their northern counterparts. She highlights the complex world and lives of the population marginalized by the growing slave system and shows that the appearance of race solidarity was undermined by strong class conflicts.
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