Author: Johannes Richard LischkaPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Ludwig Mond and the British Alkali Industry
Author: Johannes Richard LischkaPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
At the Falls
Author: Marie Tyler-McGrawPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807844762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to the inauguration of Douglas Wilder, America's first elected African-American governor
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
Author: Midori TakagiPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813929172
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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.
Roots of Secession
Author: William A. LinkPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807856611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
ISI Publication
Author: A Sketch of Missions, Or, History of the Principal Attempts to Propagate Christianity Among the Heathen
Author: Miron WinslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: A Memoir of the Rev. Legh Richmond, A.M.
Author: Thomas Shuttleworth GrimshawePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
When Baseball Went White
Author: Ryan A. SwansonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803235216
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Explains how in the decade following the Civil War, baseball became segregated because its leaders wanted to grow its presence and appeal to Southerners, and wanted to professionalize it. The result was the exclusion of black players that lasted until 1947"--
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Author: Ramsay CookPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780802039989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
Book Description
Internet version contains all the information in the 14 volume print and CD-ROM versions; fully searchable by keyword or by browsing the name index.