Rearing wolves to our own destruction : slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865 /
Richmond was not only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy, it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Boasting ironworks, tobacco-processing plants, and flour mills, the city by 1860 drew half of its male workforce from the local slave population. &qu...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
1999.
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| Loạt: | Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=17067 |
Mục lục:
- 1 Inauspicious Beginnings 9
- 2 The Road to Industrialization and the Rise of Urban Slavery, 1800-1840 16
- 3 Behind the Urban "Big House" 37
- 4 Maturation of the Urban Industrial Slave System, 1840-1860 71
- 5 Formation of an Independent Slave Community 96
- 6 The War Years, 1861-1865 124.