The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities

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William G. Thomas, III
University of Virginia

Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business Law and Power in the New South (Louisiana State University Press, 1999). Since 1996 he has managed and directed the development of The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. He is currently beginning research on an environmental and social history of the Chesapeake Bay region.

Edward L. Ayers
University of Virginia

Ed Ayers is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Oxford University Press, 1993), and In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (W. W. Norton), a narrative history based on the Valley of the Shadow Project.


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