Emancipation in Virginia's tobacco belt, 1850-1870 /
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| Author / Creator: | Morgan, Lynda J. |
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| Imprint: | Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xiii, 329 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1372191 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Slavery and the Regional Economy. 1. The Regional Economy of the Tobacco Belt: The Economic and Demographic Context. 2. Slavery at the Core: Farms and Plantations in the Tobacco Belt. 3. Slavery on the Edge: Hiring and Antebellum Tenantry
- Pt. 2. Behind the Lines: African-Virginian Labor and Confederate Defeat. 4. Getting to Work in Dead Earnest: Slavery, Politics, and Secession. 5. Labor Policy in Confederate Virginia: The Contradictions of Unfree Labor. 6. "Dis Is Your Labor an' Not Deirs": Up-Country African-Virginian Labor and Confederate Defeat
- Pt. 3. Reconstruction. 7. Finding the Contours of Freedom: Freedpeople, Planters, and the Freedpeople's Bureau in 1865. 8. "Irreclaimable 'Mauvais Sujets'": Presidential Reconstruction. 9. Up-Country Radicals and Biracial Alliances: When "Isms Crept In" 10. Freedom's Institutions: The Political Intersections of Families, Schools, and Churches. 11. Striking the Next-Best Bargain: Sharecropping, Renting, and Landownership. 12. Factories, Land, and Labor, 1870-1880: Census Reports and the Transformation of the Regional Economy. 13. Fusion and the Failure of Virginia Reconstruction, 1869-1870.