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  Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States
Edited by John Edmund Stealey III
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Commercial exploitation of rich trans-Appalachian salt brines began in 1808 and freed the economy from the uncertainty of reliance for salt on foreign supplies. In Kanawhan Prelude, historian John Edmund Stealey III presents the foundational legal documents for the salt industry in western Virginia in the antebellum era. The salt enterprise in what is now West Virginia evolved through several stages of business organization. Dr. Stealey's research has uncovered all the extant documents of these firms and presents them in this publication. Preceding each document is a narrative that gives the legal and economic environment in which it was produced.
Kanawhan Prelude makes a signal contribution to our understanding of pre–Civil War legal and business history in the United States. Previously, historians dated formal business combinations and monopolies to the 1860s. In fact, as Dr. Stealey demonstrates in this book, Kanawha salt makers enacted embryonic trust arrangements half a century before the Standard Oil Trust.
147 pages, hardcover, ISBN 0-945015-19-4, Virginia Historical Society, 2000.
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