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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John E. Stealey Book Manuscripts, A&M 3195, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Book manuscripts by John Edmund Stealey III, Distinguished Professor of History at Shepherd University. Born of a prominent Clarksburg family, Stealey is known generally for his work on West Virginia and Appalachia including industrial slavery, antebellum business and industry, nineteenth century United States legal history. He has extended his research and publication range to include early Porfirian Mexico and Civil War era constitutionalism, African American life, and political development in the Border States. Collection includes galley proofs of The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets (1993).

An addendum of 2000/09/19 includes the final manuscript, typescript, and galley proof versions of Stealey's book Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States (2000), and galley proof of his book The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets (1993).

An addendum of 2007/08/27 includes a manuscript copy and final proof copy of Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's diaries in the early Porfirian era, 1879-1885 , edited and authored by John E. Stealey, and floppy discs (2005-2006).

The addendum of 2017-07-05 contains microfilm copies in 17 reels of dispatches from United States Ministers to Mexico for period 1879-1885; also includes microfilm copies in 2 reels of dispatches from the United States Consuls in Mexico, Mexico City, for period 1875-1906. These copies are from the US National Archives; they were were apparently acquired by Stealey for the research he conducted in order to write and edit "Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's diaries in the early Porfirian era, 1879-1885".

The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets (1993) explores the rise and decline of the Great Kanawha salt industry and allied Ohio Valley agricultural business including the efficiency of industrial slavery, the development of technology, the evolution of legal combination and contract law to control production and markets, and external market forces such as international trade in salt, tariff policy, and internal improvements.

Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States (2000) presents and contextualizes the foundational legal documents for the salt industry in western Virginia in the antebellum era.

Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885 presents the comprehensive observations and activities of the observant artist and writer who was United States Consul General that encompass all aspects of Mexican political, commercial, and social life in an important formative period. It contains an extensive introduction, explanatory notes, and appendices of identification and of all reports and most official correspondence from Mexico City.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Kanawha Valley.
• Labor
• Politics and government.
• Ruffner-Donnally and Company
• Salt industry - Kanawha County.
• Salt industry and trade - West Virginia.
• Slaves and slavery.
• Stealey, John E., III, 1941-