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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This book is an impressive piece of work. Based on solid research, it makes an important contribution to the history of Richmond, to our understanding of urban and industrial slavery, and to the broader field of slave historiography.
(Charles B. Dew, Williams College )A thoughtful exploration of the promises and pitfalls of urban residence and factory labor for enslaved Virginians in Richmond, and for their enslavers, between independence from the British and the defeat of the Confederacy.
(Michael P. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University )An outstanding addition to the literature of placing slaves at the center of slave history.
(Choice ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the Author
Midori Takagi is Assistant Professor of History at Fairhaven College, Western Washington University.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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A Corner Stone to Slavery in Richmond,
This review is from: Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865 (Carter G Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies) (Hardcover)
No library should be without this text. It helps one gain a basic understanding of a city faced with very difficult times, while the various issues concernig slavery become flames and turn the city to ashes.
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IN 1782 when Richmond received its formal recognition as a city, it had only a thousand inhabitants and hardly resembled a bustling metropolis; incorporated or not, it was little more than a small port town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
James River, Big House, First African Baptist Church, Civil War, Tredegar Iron Works, New Orleans, First Baptist Church, Revolutionary War, Bureau of Census, General Assembly, Jordan Hatcher, Nat Turner, President Davis, Shockoe Creek, Hustings Court, United States, Confederate Congress, John Enders, Simon Bailey, Courtesy of The Library of Virginia, Joseph Abrams, Thomas Prosser, Word of God New!
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IN 1782 when Richmond received its formal recognition as a city, it had only a thousand inhabitants and hardly resembled a bustling metropolis; incorporated or not, it was little more than a small port town. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
James River, Big House, First African Baptist Church, Civil War, Tredegar Iron Works, New Orleans, First Baptist Church, Revolutionary War, Bureau of Census, General Assembly, Jordan Hatcher, Nat Turner, President Davis, Shockoe Creek, Hustings Court, United States, Confederate Congress, John Enders, Simon Bailey, Courtesy of The Library of Virginia, Joseph Abrams, Thomas Prosser, Word of God New!
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- Old South by Fletcher Melvin Green on 5 pages
- Tobacco Kingdom by Joseph C. Robert on 4 pages
- Ironmaker to the Confederacy : Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works by Charles B. Dew in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Industrial Slavery in the Old South by Robert S. Starobin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery by Robert William Fogel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon in Back Matter
- In Old Virginia: Slavery, Farming, and Society in the Journal of John Walker by Claudia L. Bushman in Back Matter
- Rebels, Reformers, and Revolutionaries: Collected Essays and Second Thoughts (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Douglas R. Egerton in Back Matter
- American Slavery: 1619-1877 by Peter Kolchin in Back Matter
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