TY - BOOK AU - Takagi,Midori TI - Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782-1865 T2 - Carter G. Woodson Institute Series SN - 9780813929170 AV - F234.R59 -- N485 1999eb U1 - 306.36209755 PY - 2002/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century KW - Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 18th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Inauspicious Beginnings -- Chapter 2: The Road to Industrialization and the Rise of Urban Slavery, 1800-1840 -- Chapter 3: Behind the Urban ''Big Hou se'' -- Chapter 4: Maturation of the Urban Industrial Slave System, 1840-1860 -- Chapter 5: Formation of an Independent Slave Community -- Chapter 6: The War Years, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3444049 ER -