Acknowledgments
Introduction, Identity and Independence: The American Artisan,
1750-1850
Part I. Studies of the Southern Experience
1. From Father to Son: Economic Roots of Craft Dynamics in
Eighteenth-Century Maryland
2. Freeman, Servants, and Slaves: Artisans and the Craft Structure
of Revolutionary Baltimore Town
3. Planters in the Making: Artisnal Opportunity in Georgia,
1790-1830
4. Slave Artisans in Richmond, Virginia, 1780-1810
Part II. Explorations of Class and Politics
5. Alternative Communities: American Artisans and the Evangelical
Appeal, 1780-1830
6. The Petitoning of Artisans and Operatives: Means and Ends in the
Struggle for a Ten-Hour Day
7. "Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests":
Third-Partyism and the Serch for Security in the Antebellum
North
Part III. Biographical Approaches
8. Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham: The Struggle for Artisanal
Independence in Early-Nineteenth-Century Boston
9. From Artisan to Alderman: The Career of William W. Moore,
1803-1886
Part IV. Iconographic Interpretations
10. "All Her Sons Join as One Social Band": New York City's
Artisanal Societies in the Early Republic
11. With Hammer in Hand: Working-Class Occupational Portraits
Notes
Contributors
Index
Howard B. Rock taught American History from 1973 to 2009. He is the author of Artisans of the New Republic, Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865, and The New York City Artisan, and is co-author of Keepers of the Revolution and Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images. Paul A. Gilje is the George Lynn Cross Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Oklahoma and co-author of Keepers of the Revolution. Robert Asher is the author of the Immigration to the United States series
"A more complete range of artisans than ever before, from rural white tanners on Maryland's Eastern Shore to enslaved blacksmiths in Virginia's capital to a Washington, D.C., foreman who earned the respect of workers without ever joining their union."'--Journal of Southern History'
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