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Author:

Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.

Title:

Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900 / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xv, 345 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Freedmen--Virginia--History--19th century.
Afro-American farmers--Virginia--Economic conditions.
Tobacco farms--Virginia--History--19th century.
Virginia--Economic conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-328) and index.

Contents:

Slavery, tobacco, and Old Dominion -- Free labor struggles in the field, 1865-1867 -- Black Republicanism in the field, 1867-1870 -- The impact of Emancipation, 1865-1872 -- The contested tobacco state, 1873-1877 -- Readjusting free labor relations, 1873-1889 -- The highest stage of tobacco alliance, 1890-1892 -- Shifting terrain -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Colonel Brown's address to the freedmen of Virginia -- Appendix 2. Captain Sharp's report to Colonel Brown -- Appendix 3. Sampson White's letter to federal census director E. Dana Durand, September 1910.

ISBN:

9780807847633 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807847631 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807824603 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807824607 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38993109

LCCN:

98022751

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)