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Working on the dock of the bay : labor and enterprise in an antebellum Southern port / Michael D. Thompson.

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Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers -- black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant -- in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Thompson, Michael D.
Other title:潗歲湩⁧湯琠敨䐠捯景琠敨䈠祡
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Stevedores > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American stevedores > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Labor > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American stevedores.
Economic history.
Labor.
Race relations.
Social conditions.
Stevedores.
South Carolina > Charleston.
History.
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