Online Archive of University of Virginia Scholarship
Labor and landownership in Halifax County, Virginia, 1865-1880656 views
Author
Jones, Susannah Hopkins, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia
Advisors
Gaston, Paul M., Department of History, University of Virginia
Abstract
This study of Halifax County, in the heart of the Virginia bright tobacco region, provides a glimpse of the change from slavery to sharecropping, the fate of the wealthy landed class, and the role of rural merchants between 1865 and 1880.
Degree
MA (Master of Arts)
Keywords
Land tenure -- Virginia -- Halifax County; African Americans -- Employment -- Virginia -- Halifax County; Halifax County (Va.) -- Economic conditions
Notes
Digitization of this thesis was made possible by a generous grant from the Jefferson Trust, 2015.
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Jones, Susannah Hopkins. Labor and landownership in Halifax County, Virginia, 1865-1880. University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History, MA (Master of Arts), 1980-05-01, https://doi.org/10.18130/V3X347.