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Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad (American Heritage) - Softcover

Buch 113 von 174: American Heritage

Lyons, Mary E.

 
9781467144902: Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad (American Heritage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1467144908 ISBN 13: 9781467144902
Verlag: HISTORY PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Between 1849 and 1859, Virginia raced to pierce the Blue Ridge Mountains by rail and reach the Ohio River. At least 300 enslaved people labored involuntarily toward that goal, along with 1,500 Irish immigrants. The state leased the labor of enslaved Virginians from local slaveholders, including four connected with nearby University of Virginia. Blue Ridge Tunnel and Blue Ridge Railroad historian Mary E. Lyons explored hundreds of primary documents to write the first nonfiction book about slave labor on a specific antebellum railroad. She shares hundreds of enslaved people's names, traces where they toiled along the line and describes their backbreaking--and sometimes fatal--tasks.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary E. Lyons has written nineteen award-winning books for young readers about slavery, the Irish famine and the ancient American world. Most recently, she is the author of The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia and The Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad, both published by The History Press. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Paul.

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Verlag
HISTORY PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1467144908
ISBN 13 
9781467144902
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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