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Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 - Gillespie, Michele
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This is a book-length study of free, white craftsmen and tradesmen in the pre-Civil War South. Michele Gillespie details these workers' worlds and tells how they struggled against declining social and economic opportunities while skilled slaves increasingly took up the mechanical, building, clothing, and decorative arts trades.

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Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 2004, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820326702

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860 2002, University of Georgia Press

ISBN-13: 9780820319681

Hardcover