| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie. Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860–1900. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 345. Cloth $49.95, paper $18.95.

Scholarly study of emancipation and its aftermath in the American South has focused disproportionately on the cotton-producing areas within the region. This book offers a welcome corrective to the imbalance. It is a well-crafted, broadly focused, deeply researched monograph that raises important questions; it is not without flaws, however, and it will not be the last word on this under-explored area. 1

Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie prefaces his book with a model introduction that outlines the scope, thesis, and thematic focus of the work with admirable clarity. His thesis is straightforward: in the tobacco-producing region of Piedmont Virginia, "slave emancipation combined with transformed market conditions gradually eroded traditional forms of social discipline" (p. 2). Employing a "qualified historical materialism" (p. 8), Kerr-Ritchie intends to "illuminate the shifting frontiers of a world caught in the transition between a postemancipation society no longer defined by slavery and emergent capitalist forces that were not yet fully matured" (p. 6). . . .

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