Coal, Iron, and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and Virginia, 1715$1865

by Ronald L. Lewis

Studies slave labor in Virginia coal fields and ironworks around Baltimore and Richmond. Finds that slaveowners in these areas did not exercise absolute authority, but rather pragmatically yielded to slave demands within certain limit in order to maintain production and profit.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313205221
• ISBN13: 9780313205224
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"