The main point of this article is that in western Virginia a salt lick in the nineteenth century was one of the most significant premodern manufacture operation. The Great Kanawha was located along the Ohio River. There was a large scale of economic development of salt manufactures in rural and urban areas in the Ohio River basin. Therefore, the pork packaging industry in Cincinnati, Louisville, and the river towns would not have prosper without the salt extracted from Kanawha Saline’s. Conversely in 1812 the Kanawha manufacture had no sufficient white labor, so therefore slaves where industry bought and traded in groups throughout the industry. Furthermore, slaves had to working very unsafe conditions. Due to the unsafe conditions, there
