| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves, 1865–1900. By Sharon Ann Holt. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxvi, 188 pp. $30.00, ISBN 08203-2170-2.)

This small but fascinating book makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of black life in the postemancipation South. Asking good questions and drawing upon painstaking local research, it focuses not so much on the struggles between freedpeople and employers as on the strategies that freedpeople devised to advance their independence. It simultaneously demonstrates the immense burdens that freedpeople shouldered in the pursuit of family and community development and the multifaceted and creative energies they brought to the tasks. Although the evidence pertains chiefly to tobacco-growing Granville County, North Carolina, the implications extend well beyond. . . .

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