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The Constitutions of 1830 and 1850 expanded suffrage but did not equalize white male apportionment statewide. The population grew slowly from 700,000 in 1790, to 1 million in 1830, to 1.2 million in 1860. Virginia was the largest state population wise to join the Confederate States in 1861.
- Promise of The New South
- Paradox of Southern Progressivism
- Appalachia
- Race Relations in Virginia
- A Nation Under Our Feet
- Freedpeople in The Tobacco South
- Lynching in The New South
- A Murder in Virginia
Edward Ayers wrote The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstructionin 1992 and reprinted in 2007. It is now available on Kindle and in paperback. Ayers offers “the other half” of the New South besides the powerful businessmen who prevailed in state politics. This book focuses on the economically and socially non-elite. Railroads brought comp...
William A. Link wrote The Paradox of Southern Progressivismin 1992. It is available on Kindle and online new and used. Reformers sought to develop democratic movements, initiate legislation, and establish state bureaucracies for social control in the areas of temperance, race relations, education, public health, child labor and woman suffrage. They...
*John Alexander Williams wrote Appalachia: A History in 2002. It is now available on Kindle and in paperback. It comprehensively surveys the place of Appalachia, populated by Virginians and Pennsylvanians in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The change from the log cabin to white houses of sawn lumber suggested the rising wealth as the lowland sou...
Charles E. Wynes wrote Race Relations in Virginia, 1870-1902 in 1961. It was reprinted in 2012 and is now available in paperback. Complete ostracism, segregation and disenfranchisement for the African American did not come to Virginia until the 20thcentury, after the 1900 segregating railroad act and the 1902 Virginia Constitution. Virginia treated...
Steven Hahn wrote A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration in 1993 and reprinted in 2005. It is now available on Kindle and in paperback. Hahn links the slave era with the 20thcentury’s Great Migration through his analysis of rural grassroots immigration patterns. Emigration, separati...
Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie wrote Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900in 1999. It is now available in paperback. He examines the postwar political economy of Virginia’s emancipated tobacco workers, from their interactions with former masters to define free labor to larger market forces of the global capitalization of the tobacco indust...
Fitzhugh Brundage wrote Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930in 1993. It is now available in paperback. He tracks the course of mob violence as the extreme form of racial control, although whites were also lynched. Lynchings as planned attacks against individuals were most often carried out against accused murderers, but sexual...
Suzanne Lebsock wrote A murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trialin 2003. It is now available in paperback. The 1895 murder of a white farm woman in rural Lunenburg County, Virginia brought about the accusation and trial of one black man and three black women implicated by the black man, William Henry (Solomon) Marable, a sawmill worker from No...
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Sep 19, 2017 · At the other end of the economic spectrum, A Kind of Fate is an account of two generations of the same farmer family in Virginia. A Saga of the New South. A Saga of the New South: Race, Law and Public Debt in Virginia (2016) by Brent Tartar. Gilded Age Richmond. Gilded Age Richmond: Gaiety, Greed & Lost Cause Mania (2017) by Brian Burns. Gilded ...
Learn. Rural Life in Virginia. Time Period. 1861 to 1876. 1877 to 1924. Topics. Business & Industry. Picking peanuts by hand in Virginia, c. late 19th century. After the Civil War, farming in Virginia changed dramatically. The most obvious reason for this was emancipation.
1609 -. May 23 - Virginia Company replaces Council with Governor who has absolute control. August - Seven ships arrive at Jamestown, Sea Venture wrecked on Bermuda. 200-300 men, women, and children. September 10 - Capt. George Percy replaces Capt. John Smith as president of the Council, Smith returned to England.
In Norfolk, telephone service was introduced in 1879 and electric lights two years later. By 1900, most Richmond homes were wired for electricity. In contrast, 90 percent of Virginia's farms remained without electric power until World War II. Cities grew in other ways too.
Black political advancement in Virginia largely ceased by the 1890s. The Democratic Party gained control of the government, and one-party rule began, lasting nearly a century. A state constitution written in 1902 was progressive in attacking corporate corruption but regressive in restricting voter registration.
