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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Carter G. Woodson Institute SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2002Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813929170
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rearing Wolves to Our Own DestructionDDC classification:
  • 306.36209755
LOC classification:
  • F234.R59 -- N485 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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