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Author Takagi, Midori, 1962-

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

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 187 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies
Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-179) and index.
Contents 1 Inauspicious Beginnings 9 -- 2 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 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 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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Subject Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery.
Virginia -- Richmond.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions.
African Americans.
Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Other Form: Print version: Takagi, Midori, 1962- Rearing wolves to our own destruction. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1999 0813918340 (DLC) 98035770 (OCoLC)39456029
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