Freedpeople in the tobacco South : Virginia, 1860-1900 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerr-Ritchie, Jeffrey R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1999]
Subjects:	Freedmen > Virginia > History > 19th century. African American farmers > Virginia > Economic conditions. Tobacco farms > Virginia > History > 19th century. Virginia > Economic conditions.

Table of 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.