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Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900

Title
Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900 / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.
Author
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.

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Description
xv, 345 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Alternative Title
Freed people in the tobacco South
Subject
  • Freed persons > Virginia > History > 19th century
  • African American farmers > Virginia > Economic conditions
  • Tobacco farms > Virginia > History > 19th century
  • Virginia > Economic conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
Sc E 99-590
ISBN
  • 0807824607 (alk. paper)
  • 0807847631 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98022751
OCLC
38993109
Author
Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Title
Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900 / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-328) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 99-590
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