American Artisans

by Rock, Howard B.; Gilje, Paul A.; Asher, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780801850295
• ISBN10: 0801850290
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-10-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction. Identity and Independence: The American Artisan, 1750--1850	xi
Paul A. Gilje
PART I. STUDIES OF THE SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE
From Father to Son: Economic Roots of Craft Dynasties in Eighteenth-Century Maryland	3	(14)
Christine Daniels
Freemen, Servants, and Slaves: Artisans and the Craft Structure of Revolutionary Baltimore Town	17	(16)
Tina H. Sheller
Planters in the Making: Artisanal Opportunity in Georgia, 1790--1830	33	(15)
Michele K. Gillespie
Slave Artisans in Richmond, Virginia, 1780--1810	48	(17)
James Sidbury
PART II. EXPLORATIONS OF CLASS AND POLITICS
Alternative Communities: American Artisans and the Evangelical Appeal, 1780--1830	65	(12)
Ronald Schultz
The Petitioning of Artisans and Operatives: Means and Ends in the Struggle for a Ten-Hour Day	77	(21)
Teresa Murphy
``Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests'': Third-Partyism and the Search for Security in the Antebellum North	98	(25)
Bruce Laurie
PART III. BIOGRAPHICAL APPROACHES
Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The Struggle for Artisanal Independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston	123	(12)
Gary J. Kornblith
From Artisan to Alderman: The Career of William W. Moore, 1803--1886	135	(20)
William S. Pretzer
PART IV. ICONOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATIONS
``All Her Sons Join as One Social Band'': New York City's Artisanal Societies in the Early Republic	155	(21)
Howard B. Rock
With Hammer in Hand: Working-Class Occupational Portraits	176	(23)
Harry R. Rubenstein
Notes	199	(46)
Contributors	245	(2)
Index	247