Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Category : Freed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Freedmen's Bureau
Author: United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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Category : Freed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : Freed persons
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South
Author: Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807861146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807861146
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general.
House Documents
Author: United States House of Representatives
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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House Executive Documents
Author: U.S. Congress 38th Congress 1st Session
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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Special Report of the Anti-Slavery Conference, held in Paris ... 1867
Author: British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Special report of the Anti-slavery conference, held in Paris, Aug. 1867
Author: Anti-slavery conference
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Special Report of the Anti-slavery Conference
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Publisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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