Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States

By Bernard Mandel

Book Overview

A classic piece of Old Left scholarship made available to a new generation of students and activists Bernard Mandel's classic study provides a concise overview of the relationship between organized abolitionism and the fledgling labor movement in the period before the Civil War. Mandel argues that slavery reinforced the powerlessness of white workers North and South, and the racial divisions that it upheld rendered effective labor solidarity impossible. Deep distrust between abolitionists and the working classes, however, compelled Northern workers to find their own way into the antislavery ranks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252074289
• ISBN13: 9780252074288
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.5"