"Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, New York"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-179) and index.
Contents
Inauspicious beginnings -- The road to industrialization and the rise of urban slavery, 1800-1840 -- Behind the urban "big house" -- Maturation of the urban industrial slave system, 1840-1860 -- Formation of an independent slave community -- The war years, 1861-1865.