{"id":18300,"date":"2018-07-24T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=18300"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:20","slug":"newly-published-book-on-southern-us-labor-history-includes-essay-by-phd-student-stuart-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/newly-published-book-on-southern-us-labor-history-includes-essay-by-phd-student-stuart-mackay\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly published book on southern US labor history includes essay by PhD student Stuart MacKay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Newly published book on southern US labor history includes essay by PhD student Stuart MacKay\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/RSLH-Final-Book-Cover-240x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/RSLH-Final-Book-Cover-240x358.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/RSLH-Final-Book-Cover-160x239.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/RSLH-Final-Book-Cover.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">MacKay\u2019s essay, \u201cThe Promise of Free Labor: Carl Schurz and Republican Conceptions of Labor within the Early Reconstruction South,\u201d examines how in the aftermath of the American Civil War, many northerners saw in a defeated South an opportunity to build a free labor society out of the ruins of society built on enslaved labor. One of those northerners was a German Republican named Carl Schurz, who was asked by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 to survey social conditions in the postwar South. However, the labor conditions which Schurz found in the South challenged his belief that a free labor system in the region could be created organically, into one where political action would be necessary to implement it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the publisher\u2019s website for more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LiPZ1e\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2LiPZ1e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacKay\u2019s essay, \u201cThe Promise of Free Labor: Carl Schurz and Republican Conceptions of Labor within the Early Reconstruction South,\u201d examines how in the aftermath of the American Civil War, many northerners saw in a defeated South an opportunity to build a free labor society out of the ruins of society built on enslaved labor. 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