Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end Labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore.
In the era of Frederick Douglass, Baltimore\'s distinctive economy featured many slaves who earned.
Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined the economic opportunities and vulnerabilities of working families in the Early republic.
Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end Labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore