Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865

ISBN-13: 9780813918341 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 187 str.

Midori Takagi

Opis

This work examines the unusual labour system in Richmond, Virginia from 1782 to the end of the Civil War. The city drew half of its male workforce from the local slave population, offering blacks a level of economic and emotional support not usually available to plantation slaves.