Rearing wolves to our own destruction : slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865 / Midori Takagi.

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Takagi, Midori, 1962-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studiesPublication details: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585121613
9780585121611
9780813929170
0813929172
9786613885203
6613885207
1283572753
9781283572750

Other title:

Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rearing wolves to our own destruction.DDC classification:

306.3/62/09755 21

LOC classification:

F234.R59 N485 1999eb

Other classification:

15.85
NW 8295

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" examines this unusual urban labor system from 1782 until the end of the Civil WarSummary: Richmond's urban slave system offered blacks a level of economic and emotional support not usually available to plantation slaves. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-179) and index.

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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. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" examines this unusual urban labor system from 1782 until the end of the Civil War

Richmond's urban slave system offered blacks a level of economic and emotional support not usually available to plantation slaves. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.

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