Industrial Slavery in the Old South

xii, 320pp. In peach cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles on spine (cloth gently rounded at corners and spine tips). Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (worn, rubbed and faded on edges and folds, lightly chipped around spine tips, price-clipped). Views the nature of slavery in the Old South of the United States from a fresh perspective. The study, extending from 1790 to 1861, traces the ways in which the movement for slave-based industries influenced political developments leading up to the Civil War; and describes the daily living conditions of industrial slaves working in manufacturing, mining, lumbering, crop processing etc. 8vo.