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Paperback Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era Book

ISBN: 0817350640

ISBN13: 9780817350642

Southwest Virginia's Railroad: Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era

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A close study of one region of Appalachia that experienced economic vitality and strong sectionalism before the Civil War

This book 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 labor. Thus, during the secession crisis, southwest...

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