Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War
Although it came to epitomize the Cotton South in the twentieth century, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta emerged as a distinct entity in the decades following the Civil War. As other southerners confronted the need to rebuild, the Delta remained mostly wilderness in 1865. Elsewhere, planters struggled to maintain the perquisites of slaveholding and poor families tried desperately to escape the sharecropper's lot, yet Delta landlords offered generous terms to freed people willing to clear and cultivate backcountry acres subject to yellow fever and yearly flooding. By the turn of the century, two-thirds of the region's farmers were African American…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8139-1971-3
- EAN: 9780813919713
- Produktnummer: 1526162
- Verlag: Univ Of Virginia Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 239 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.2 cm 544 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 544
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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