Slave Labor in the Virginia Iron Industry
Author : Kathleen Bruce
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Iron and steel workers
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Author : Kathleen Bruce
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Iron and steel workers
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Author : Kathleen Bruce
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Iron and steel workers
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Author : Ronald Lewis
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 1979-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
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Studies slave labor in Virginia coal fields and ironworks around Baltimore and Richmond. Finds that slaveowners in these areas did not exercise absolute authority, but rather pragmatically yielded to slave demands within certain limit in order to maintain production and profit.
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Iron industry and trade
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Author : Charles B. Dew
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393313598
A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills. At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Ronald L. Lewis
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,22 MB
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Author : Nathan Vernon Madison
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 146711894X
One of the most important industrial landmarks in the nation lies in the heart of historic Richmond. The Tredegar Iron Works was the most prodigious ordnance supplier to the Confederacy during the Civil War, as well as an industrial behemoth in its own right. Named for the hometown of the Welsh engineers who built it, Tredegar remained one of Richmond's chief industrial entities for over a century. It produced ordnance during five wars and helped build the railroads that rapidly spread across the nation during the Gilded Age. Author Nathan Vernon Madison, utilizing a wealth of primary sources and firsthand accounts, chronicles the full history of a Richmond industrial icon.
Author : Kathleen Bruce
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Iron industry and trade
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
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Author : Midori Takagi
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2000-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813929172
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. Many urban bondsmen and women were hired to businesses rather than working directly for their owners. As a result, they frequently had the opportunity to negotiate their own contracts, to live alone, and to keep a portion of their wages in cash. Working conditions in industrial Richmond enabled African-American men and women to build a community organized around family networks, black churches, segregated neighborhoods, secret societies, and aid organizations. Through these institutions, Takagi demonstrates, slaves were able to educate themselves and to develop their political awareness. They also came to expect a degree of control over their labor and lives. 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.