Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad

Mary E Lyons

Slave Labor on Virginia's Blue Ridge Railroad
Format
Hardback
Publisher
History Press Library Editions
Published
30 March 2020
Pages
162
ISBN
9781540242570

Slave Labor on Virginia’s Blue Ridge Railroad

Mary E Lyons

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 Virgi

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