| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

"Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. By Midori Takagi. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 187 pp. $37.50, isbn 0-8139-1834-0.)

Since the 1964 publication of Richard C. Wade's Slavery in the Cities, historians have wrestled over the nature of urban slavery in the antebellum South. Wade's contention that slavery disintegrated in southern cities largely from the absence of a "web of restraints"—the diffuse, urban milieu fragmenting masters' control—has evoked a number of challenges, including Robert Starobin's Industrial Slavery in the Old South (1970), which characterized industrial slavery as innovative and ultimately successful, thus disputing at least that aspect of Wade's thesis. Most recently, key studies of urban slavery and African American communities in such cities as Charleston, Savannah, Norfolk, and Baltimore have honed the debate, testing it against regional conditions and adducing the important consideration of black agency in their conclusions. . . .

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