Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860.

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“A hitherto neglected field is opened up by this study of the economic, rather than the merely legal and political, aspects of free Negro life in Virginia prior to the abolition of slavery. The book covers the years from 1830 to 1860 when Virginia supposedly underwent a period of decline because of exclusive adherence to plantation agriculture, in contrast to the diversified economy of the North. In reality, it shows Virginia staged an economic revival by promoting varied agricultural projects, commercial manufacturing, and railroad and town expansion.” (dust jacket).

Quite scarce to commerce and from the library of a noted historian.

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