Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port - Paperback
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Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port
An examination of the role and struggles of dockworkers--enslaved and free--in Charleston between the American Revolution and the Civil War
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, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a...
Michael D. Thompson is a University of Chattanooga Foundation Associate Professor of American History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He earned his B.A. in history from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Emory University. Thompson's manuscript for Working on the Dock of the Bay won the 2011 Hines Prize from the College of Charleston's Program in the...
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