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. Rea...
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2001
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