Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum
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With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation's coal trade. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role.Virginia's failure to exploit the rich coal fields in the western part of the state can be traced to the legislature's overriding concern to protect and promote the interests of the agrarian, slaveholding elite of eastern Virginia.
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