Mark M. Smith | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.4

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Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860. By Michele Gillespie. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xxiv, 236 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8203-1968-6.)

Michele Gillespie's study complicates southern historians' conventional triptych of "planters, yeomen, slaves" by adding white mechanics to the mix. Gillespie maintains that we can see skilled artisans, not as anomalies, but as active agents in fashioning antebellum Georgia. Throughout, Gillespie's emphasis is on the gerund. Shaped by their own aspirations and the material realities of the plantation economy, artisans' fortunes and ideology changed over time and place. . . .

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