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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780807847633 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 04/19/1999 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 368 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.81(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Slavery, Tobacco, and Old Dominion
Chapter 2. Free Labor Struggles in the Field, 1865-1867
Chapter 3. Black Republicanism in the Field, 1867-1870
Chapter 4. The Impact of Emancipation, 1865-1872
Chapter 5. The Contested Tobacco State, 1873-1877
Chapter 6. Readjusting Free Labor Relations, 1873-1889
Chapter 7. The Highest Stage of Tobacco Alliance, 1890-1892
Chapter 8. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Maps
1.1. Virginia's principal geographic regions
1.2. Tobacco production in Virginia, 1859
1.3. Slave Population in the Virginia tobacco region, 1859
2.1. BRFAL districts in the Virginia tobacco region
7.1. Tobacco Virginia's regions and articulation
Figures
1.1. The Slaves' tobacco regimen
2.1. BRFAL labor contract between Furguson and Gosney, 1865
2.2. BRFAL labor contract between Miller and Roberts and Lewis, 1866
6.1. Crop lien for Fertilizer, 1882
Tables
5.1. U.S. Wheat Production, 1869-1899
5.2. The Global Tobacco Economy, ca. 1875
5.3. U.S. Tobacco Production, 1869-1899
6.1. Share Tenancy in the Bright Tobacco Belt, 1880s
6.2. Share Tenancy in the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1880s
8.1. Freedpeople's Landholdings in the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.2. Freedpeople's Landholdings in the Bright Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.3. Freedpeople's Acreage, Land Values, and Building Values in the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.4. Freedpeople's Acreage, Land Values, and Building Values in the Bright Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.5. Distribution of Freedpeople's Landholdings by Size in the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.6. Land Transfers in the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1900
8.7. Land Transfers in Buffalo District, Prince Edward County, 1900
8.8. Freedpeople's Exodus from the Dark Tobacco Belt, 1890s
8.9. Freedpeople's Exodus from the Bright Tobacco Belt, 1890s
8.10. Urban Population Growth in Virginia, 1890s
8.11. Manufacturing Growth in Virginia, 1890s
8.12. Virginia-Born Residents in Other Locations by 1900
What People are Saying About This
A convincing study of the impact of the political economy of tobacco on the possibility that freedpeople might realize their aspirations for emancipation.Journal of American History
A well-crafted, broadly focused, deeply researched monograph that raises important questions. . . . Kerr-Ritchie provides valuable information about an under-examined region, and historians of the post-bellum South will need to reckon with his assessment.American Historical Review
Freedpeople in the Tobacco South rejuvenates the history of labor and capitalist agriculture in late nineteenth-century Virginia. . . . Methodologically, the book is a strong call for the continuing importance of a wide-ranging social history. It represents an important and long overdue contribution to the history of a large and significant African-American population.Journal of Interdisciplinary History
This study uses valuable source materials, good secondary literature, and raises good questions.Choice
A complex discussion of a state, region and staple product less well served by historians than the more familiar cotton-producing areas further south, or the tidewater region of Virginia. . . . Kerr-Ritchie, in a fashion that is fresh and unfamiliar, tells what might have been an old story in a new setting.Times Literary Supplement
With impressive chronological sweep and command of source material, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie's Freedpeople in the Tobacco South examines the origins of a new social order on the ashes of slavery. His account of the relationship between developments in Virginia and the international economic depression of the last quarter of the nineteenth century is masterfully wrought and rich with insights that extend far beyond the Upper South. No student of southern history, of the Civil War era, or of emancipation will want to miss this important book.Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University