Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1803
1. “The Land Flows with Milk and Honey”: Agriculture and Labor in the Early Republic
2. “A Strange Reverse of Fortune”: Panic, Depression, and the Transformation of Labor
3. “There Are Objections to Black and White, but One Must Be Chosen”: Managing Farms and Farmhands
4. “. . . How Much of Oursels We Owned”: Finding Freedom along the Mason-Dixon Line
5. “Chased Out on the Slippery Ice”: Rural Wage Laborers in Antebellum Maryland
Conclusion: Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862
Notes
Index
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