Rearing wolves to our own destruction
Subtitle: slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
By: Midori Takagi.
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 18th century; Slavery -- Virginia -- Richmond -- History -- 19th century; Slaves -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 18th century; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- 19th century
Other titles: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Description: Richmond was not only the capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy, it was also one of the most industrialized cities south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Boasting ironworks, tobacco-processing plants, and flour mills, the city by 1860 drew half of its male workforce from the local slave population. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" examines this unusual urban labor system from 1782 until the end of the Civil War.

Richmond's urban slave system offered blacks a level of economic and emotional support not usually available to plantation slaves. "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction" offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-179) and index.
Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, New York.