Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad - Couverture souple

Lyons, Mary E

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1467144908 ISBN 13 : 9781467144902

Editeur : History Press, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: History Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1467144908
• ISBN 13: 9781467144902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne