
Virginia Blue Ridge Railroad
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on Sources
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Birth of a Railroad
- 2. Slave Labor
- 3. Irish Labor
- 4. Contractors and Road Hands
- 5. Crozet's Crowning Effort
- 6. An Unsettled Month
- 7. A Great Amount of Labor
- 8. A Very Trying Time
- 9. A Fearful Velocity
- 10. Appalling Difficulties
- 11. Peaks and Hollows
- 12. Westward Ho!
- Appendices
- Watchman at the Blue Ridge Tunnel
- "Births of Negroes"
- Tables
- Blue Ridge Railroad Pay Rates
- Laborers Who Bored through the Blue Ridge Tunnel
- Slave Labor on the Railroad, 1850-1861
- Violent Deaths at the Blue Ridge Tunnel
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
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