Fire in the Fields
Fire in the Fields
Reconstructing Labor and Land Following the Civil War
This chapter examines changes in labor relations in Caswell, Halifax, and Pittsylvania in the first few years following Emancipation. Most local African Americans first moved from slavery to some form of wage labor and then on to sharecropping, shifts that reflected both struggles over racial control and the demands of bright tobacco, which remained the region's economic engine.
Keywords: tobacco farming, labor relations, emancipation, Caswell, Halifax, Pittsylvania, African Americans, wage labor, sharecropping
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