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Prendre soin de la famille emancipee. La sante des affranchis et sa negociation a l'aube de la Reconstruction au Tennessee (1862-1866)
- Source :
- Labour/Le Travail. Fall, 2023 Issue 92, p177, 51 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article places the labor contracts signed in Tennessee by landowners and freedmen at the center of a study of a paradox of freedom in the United States. The text argues that freedmen's health--which included medical care, sustenance, and physical protection --was negotiated during and after the Civil War with the goal of subjugating the interests of blacks, the state, and landowners to an ideal of social relations of production governed by freedom, law, and the market. Through an examination of labor contracts and their medical clauses, the article revisits the medical-political approach that has repeatedly led historians to the failure of Reconstruction. It also places the black family in the process of emancipation and production through contracts and a rereading of the 'culture of dissemblance' proposed by historian Darlene Clark Hine over thirty years ago. Finally, the article moves away from a reading that reduces contracts to the oppression blacks faced after the Civil War. As additional input, the article invites an examination of the debates over citizenship that followed the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment. Keywords: freedom, Reconstruction, contracts, work, health, family, African Americans Dans cet article, les contrats de travail signes au Tennessee par les proprietaires fonciers et les affranchis sont places au centre d'une etude sur un paradoxe de la liberte aux Etats-Unis. Nous soutenons l'idee que la sante des affranchis--qui comprend les soins medicaux, la subsistance et la protection physique--se negocie durant et apres la guerre de Secession dans le but d'assujettir les interets des Noirs, de l'Etat et des proprietaires terriens a un ideal de relations sociales de production regi par la liberte, le droit et le marche. En examinant les contrats de travail et leurs clauses medicales, nous revisitons l'approche medicopolitique qui a maintes FOIs conduit les historiens a la these de l'echec de la Reconstruction. Nous placons aussi la famille noire dans le processus d'emancipation et de production par la voie des contrats et d'une relecture de la << culture de la dissimulation >> proposee par l'historienne Darlene Clark Hine il y a plus de trente ans. Enfin, nous nous eloignons d'une lecture qui reduit les contrats a la seule oppression dont etaient victimes les Noirs apres la guerre de Secession. En complement, nous invitons le lecteur a examiner les debats sur la citoyennete qui ont suivi la ratification du treizieme amendement. Mots clefs : emancipation, Reconstruction, contrats, travail, sante, famille, Noirs<br />DANS CET ARTICLE, NOUS EXAMINONS les origines d'un paradoxe de la liberte aux Etats-Unis en tentant de repondre a deux questions : Pourquoi le gouvernement federal, par l'entremise de son [...]
- Subjects :
- Tennessee -- History -- Laws, regulations and rules
United States Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Political aspects
Landowners -- Records and correspondence -- Political activity -- History
Liberty -- Political aspects -- History
Freedmen -- Records and correspondence -- Political activity -- History
Labor contracts -- History -- Political aspects
United States history -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Government regulation
Business
Human resources and labor relations
Business, international
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07003862
- Issue :
- 92
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Labour/Le Travail
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.804696640
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.008.