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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 309 Print image (44K) |
| completion of Thomas Hicks' term. Although personally opposed to slavery, his politics were conservative and he quickly asserted his opposition to unionists with radical views toward race relations. (Dictionary of American Biography (24 vols. and index, New York, 1928-1974), vol. 18, 237-238; Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 (Chicago, 1963), 516). 8. The literature on blacks' economic response to emancipation is voluminous and cannot possibly be discussed adequately in a single footnote. Useful review articles include: Harold D. Woodman, "Sequel to Slavery: The New History Views the Postbellum South," Journal of Southern History, 44 (November, 1977), 523-554; and Gavin Wright, "The Strange Career of the New Southern Economic History," Reviews in American History, 10 (December, 1982), 164-180. Prominent studies stressing the response of blacks to relatively open market conditions include: Robert Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Rlacks in the American Fcnnnmy3 1865-1914 (Cambridge, Eng., 1977); Stephen DeCanio, Agriculture in the Pnsthellum South: The Economics of Production and Supply (Cambridge, Mass., 1974); Joseph D. Reid, "Sharecropping as an Understandable Market Response - the Postbellum South," Journal of Economic History, 33 (March, 1973), 106-130; and Ralph Shlomowitz, "'Bound' or 'Free'? |