Artisan workers in the Upper South : Petersburg, Virginia, 1820-1865 / L. Diane Barnes.
Though deeply entrenched in antebellum life, the artisans who lived and worked in Petersburg, Virginia in the 1800sincluding carpenters, blacksmiths, coach makers, bakers, and other skilled craftsmenhelped transform their planter-centered agricultural community into one of the most industrialized ci...
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Table of Contents:
- "A great deal of enterprise, and a great deal of dirt" : the rise of a southern industrial town
- "All of one family, like brethren" : the Petersburg Benevolent Mechanic Association
- Artisans caught in the middle : White workers in Petersburg
- The paradox of freedom : Black artisans in Petersburg
- Tobacco and iron : the foundations of industrial slavery
- Between class and caste : the culture of southern antebellum artisans
- Epilogue : and then the war came.