Friday 28 February 2014

Labor & The Civil War



he “dignity of labor” was integral to the Union and Confederate visions of the American Republic both before and after the Civil War. Develop a 1-page essay that discusses how the notion of “free labor” changed from the beginning of the Civil War to the end. In developing your essay you may consider which types of “labor” were considered honorable and which were not as well as how changes shaped the lives of particular people from approximately 1850-1877

use the following sources, and the attached files

Drew Gilpin Foust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Mark Reinhardt, Who Speaks for Margaret Garner

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