The Wilmington Raleigh Rail Road Company 1833 1854

Author : James C. Burke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486740
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854 written by James C. Burke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina's capital. When it was done in 1840, after changing its route, the company had completed 161 miles of track--the longest railroad in the world at the time--and provided continuous transportation from the town of Weldon on the Roanoke River to Wilmington and on to Charleston, South Carolina, by steamboat. A marvel of civil engineering by the standards of the day, the railroad constituted a tour de force of organization, finance and political will that risked the fortunes of individuals and the credit of the state. This study chronicles the project from its inception, exploring its impact on subsequent railroad development in North Carolina and its significance within the context of American railroad history as a whole.

Author : James C. Burke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471549
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wilmington & Weldon Railroad in the Civil War written by James C. Burke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its early years, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company survived multiple threats to its existence. Under its new corporate name, the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Company would soon be put to the ultimate test, the Civil War. From mobilization to the last effort to supply Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, the company would endure the wearing out of its equipment and rails; the capriciousness and bureaucracy of the Confederate government; sabotage attempts; the gruesome death of its president; a yellow fever epidemic; Union raids on its facilities and bridges; runaway inflation in Confederate economy; the fall of Wilmington; its bisection by advancing Union forces; and, finally, the unnecessary destruction of locomotives, cars, track, and bridges by retreating Confederate troops. The railroad, unlike the Confederacy, survived, and would eventually transform itself a powerful regional economic force, adapting to the challenges of the New South.

Author : Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300213891
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815–1860 written by Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.

Author : Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Railway Economics written by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ilyon Woo
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 1804183628
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master Slave Husband Wife written by Ilyon Woo and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2023-05-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in history. Posing as master and slave, while sustained by their love as husband and wife, they made their escape together across more than 1,000 miles, riding steamboats, carriages, and trains that took them from bondage in Georgia to the free states of the North. Along the way, they dodged slave traders, military officers, and even friends of their enslavers, who might have revealed their true identities. The tale of their adventure soon made them celebrities, and generated headlines around the country. Audiences could not get enough of this charismatic young couple, who travelled the country drawing thunderous applause as they spoke alongside some of the greatest abolitionists of the day. But even then, they were not out of danger. With the passage of an infamous new Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, all Americans became accountable for returning refugees like the Crafts to slavery. Then yet another adventure began, as the Crafts fled to England to embark upon a new life. With three epic journeys compressed into one monumental bid for freedom, Master Slave Husband Wife recounts both a ground-breaking quest for liberty and justice, and an unforgettable love story.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North Carolina Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Industrial Development Manufacturers Record
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The South's Development: Fifty Years of Southern Progress written by Industrial Development Manufacturers Record and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manufacturers record, Baltimore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
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Download or read book The South's Development written by Manufacturers record, Baltimore and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book The Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: