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Artisan Workers in the Upper South : Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865 /
Though deeply entrenched in antebellum life, the artisans who lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia in the 1800sincluding carpenters, blacksmiths, coach makers, bakers, and other skilled craftsmenhelped transform their planter-centered agricultural community into one of the most industrialized ci...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A great deal of enterprise, and a great deal of dirt" : the rise of a southern industrial town
- "All of one family, like brethren" : the Petersburg Benevolent Mechanic Association
- Artisans caught in the middle : White workers in Petersburg
- The paradox of freedom : Black artisans in Petersburg
- Tobacco and iron : the foundations of industrial slavery
- Between class and caste : the culture of southern antebellum artisans
- Epilogue : and then the war came.