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 predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwork for a robust and effectual association of mostly black dock-workers shortly after emancipation. In the process it contextualizes the struggles of contemporary southern working people. Like their postbellum and present-day counterparts, those laboring on the wharves and levees of antebellum...
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 Charl...
London's ""Carolina traders"", a little-known group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensions in the South Carolina lowcountry. This book, Huw David delves into the lives of these men and explores their influence on commerce and politics in the years before and after the American Revolution.
London's ""Carolina traders"", a little-known group of transatlantic merchants, played a pivotal but historically neglected role in the rise of tensio...
