Document Type
Article
Publication Date
October 1992
Abstract
Until quite recently, most of what we knew about antebellum slavery and the African-American experience in the postwar years resulted from generalizations regarding the cotton South. The tendency to focus on the heart of Dixie failed to take into account certain economic realities in the Upper South that shaped experiences under slavery and influenced freedpeople's adaptation to a new order.
Recommended Citation
Medford, Edna Greene, "Land and Labor: The Quest for Black Economic Independence on Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880" (1992). History Department Faculty Publications. 52.
https://dh.howard.edu/hist_fac/52
Comments
Published by: Virginia Historical Society