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Turbulence: Bound Workers and Labor Negotiations in Antebellum Maryland, 1789-1860
Turbulence: Bound Workers and Labor Negotiations in Antebellum Maryland, 1789-1860
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104715
- ISBN
- 9798288865565
- DDC
- 900
- 서명/저자
- Turbulence: Bound Workers and Labor Negotiations in Antebellum Maryland, 1789-1860
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 194 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Tomlins, Christopher L.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약In antebellum America, "labor" was not a monolithic institution. Waged workers, enslaved hands, apprentices, and familial workers were each equipped with different tools for navigating life and work. While waged workers were free to move on when a better offer presented itself, slaves and apprentices were not. Using materials from Maryland and the Ottoman Empire, this dissertation uses comparative lenses to examine how bound workers negotiated with their employers (broadly construed) within the contours of that bondage. Chapter I begins with an examination of turbulence petitions in Maryland's Orphans' Courts. Maryland's economy incentivized the liberal use of term slavery, in which an enslaved person was to be freed at a certain date. Slaveholders could file a turbulent slave petition in the Orphans' or county court, requesting an extension of that bondage. Facially, these petitions chart a constellation of term slaves' misbehavior and "recalcitrance," as filtered through slaveholders' irritation. However, they also offer a window into enslaved persons' self-advocacy, its tools, and available tactics. Chapter II narrows its focus to labor negotiations specifically. Turbulence petitions represented a particularly grave rupture in the slaveholder-enslaved relationship, one which apparently demanded external intervention from the courts. Since enslaved Marylanders did not have possess strong avenues for official redress of labor abuses or complaints, they turned to self-help, tailored to address their particular grievances. Chapter III and Chapter IV shift focus to apprentices. Much like slaveholders, those who claimed the labor of apprentices could request an extension of service due to poor character and misbehavior. While turbulent apprentice petitions are largely identical to turbulent slave petitions, apprentices possessed a range of tools unavailable to term slaves. Many apprentices used breach of contract claims, definitional ineligibility for apprenticeship, and procedural flaws to contest the control of indenture holders. Chapter IV then turns to how indenture holders gained custody of children in the first place, and the abrupt way this putatively familial relationship terminated. Finally, Chapter V examines how freedpersons protected their liberty through social connections. Whether leveraging community ties, ongoing relationships with ex-slaveholders, or something akin to a patron-client relationship, freedpersons utilized Southern society's expectations and biases to defend their liberty.
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- African American studies
- 일반주제명
- Middle Eastern history
- 키워드
- Apprentice
- 키워드
- Ottoman Empire
- 키워드
- Slavery
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Jurisprudence & Social Policy
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-01A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■590 ▼aSchool code: 0028.
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■650 4▼aMiddle Eastern history
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■653 ▼aSlavery
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