UID:
edocfu_9959226591202883
Format:
x, 187 p. :
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ill., map.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8139-2917-2
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9786613885203
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1-283-57275-3
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0-585-12161-3
Series Statement:
Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies Rearing wolves to our own destruction
Content:
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.
Note:
Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, New York.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Inauspicious Beginnings -- Chapter 2: The Road to Industrialization and the Rise of Urban Slavery, 1800-1840 -- Chapter 3: Behind the Urban ''Big Hou se'' -- Chapter 4: Maturation of the Urban Industrial Slave System, 1840-1860 -- Chapter 5: Formation of an Independent Slave Community -- Chapter 6: The War Years, 1861-1865 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8139-2099-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8139-1834-0
Language:
English
