The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets /

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In the early nineteenth century a ten-mile stretch along the Kanawha River in western Virginia became the largest salt-producing area in the antebellum United States. Production of this basic commodity stimulated settlement, the livestock industry, and the rise of agricultural processing, especially...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stealey, John E., III, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:West Virginia and Appalachia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Salt industry and trade > West Virginia > Kanawha River Valley > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Kanawha salt's savor
  • 2. Early development and expansion
  • 3. Growth, chaos, and combination, 1811-1824
  • 4. Kanawha salt's use and its pre-1850 markets
  • 5. The manufacturing process and technological progress
  • 6. Manufacturers and state intervention
  • 7. Merchant capitalists, independent manufacturers, and local economic developments, 1825-1835
  • 8. Hewitt, Ruffner & Company and Depression, 1836-1846
  • 9. The Kanawha producers and the salt tariff
  • 10. White labor, subsidiary industries, and furnace managers
  • 11. Slavery in the Kanawha salt industry
  • 12. The Kanawha Salt Association and Ruffner, Donnally & Company, 1847-1855
  • 13. Ruffner, Donnally & Company and the external economy
  • 14. Kanawha salt loses its economic savor
  • 15. Perspectives.

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