Contents
List of Illustrations, Tables, Chart
Introduction to the New Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Kanawha Salt’s Savor
2. Early Development and Expansion
3. Growth, Chaos, and Combination, 1811-1824
4. Kanawha Salt’s Use and Its Pre-1850 Markets
5. The Manufacturing Process and Technological Progress
6. Manufactures and State Intervention
7. Merchant Capitalists, Independent Manufactures, and Local Economic Developments, 1825-1835
8. Hewitt, Ruffner & Company and Depression, 1836-1846
9. The Kanawha Producers and the Salt Tariff
10. White Labor, Subsidiary Industries, and Furnace Managers
11. Slavery in the Kanawha Salt Industry
12. The Kanawha Salt Association and Ruffner, Donnally & Company, 1847-1855
13. Ruffner, Donnally & Company and the External Economy
14. Kanawha Salt Loses Its Economic Savor
15. Perspectives
Notes
Works
Cited
Index