PDF MEDICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: The Enslaved Healers of Eighteenth-Century Saint Domingue by Karol K. Weaver in History

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Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore; Maryland; cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices; indentured servants; slaves; and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites; slaves; and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason-Dixon Line. Drawing from court records; the diaries; letters; and ledgers of farmers and small planters; and other archival sources; Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.