Southwest Virginia's Railroad

Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era

AvKenneth W. Noe

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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This work examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labour.