5. To Make a Laborers’ State

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Doing the Master’s Bidding 10
6. 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen 59
7. 3. Finding Freedom’s Edges 111
8. 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor 162
9. 5. To Make a Laborers’ State 208
10. Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows 264
11. Notes 273
12. Index 357