Celebrated as a classic work of historical literature, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) represents the culmination of three decades of research and reflec

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

United Association for Labor Education Best Book Award The American Dream of reaching success through sheer sweat and determination rings false for countless me

This classic study of antebellum Southern society demonstrates how slavery was the bedrock of the region’s social order and cultural identity. In The Politica

MY LIFE IN THE SOUTH is Jacob Stroyer's absorbing first person account of his experiences of life as a slave. Jacob Stroyer was born into slavery in 1849 on a l