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Wynne, Lewis N. – Phylon, 1981
Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Civil Rights, Economic Change
Erlanger, Steven J. – 1975
This monograph focuses on the working class in Boston during 1775, the period just before the American Revolution. Seven sections describe Boston's geographical and political background; working conditions, employment, and controls; income by industry and occupation; standards of living; social life; mobility and the situation of minorities; and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Citizen Role, Colonial History (United States), Economic Factors