Cotton Fields No More - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cotton Fields No More write by Gilbert C. Fite. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Cotton Fields No More available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
Cotton Fields No More
Cotton Fields No More - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cotton Fields No More write by Gilbert C. Fite. This book was released on . Cotton Fields No More available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Red Cotton Fields
The Red Cotton Fields - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Red Cotton Fields write by Michael Strickland. This book was released on 2012-04-11. The Red Cotton Fields available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Red Cotton Fields is story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. The reader will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave) as they rise to become two of the richest men in the world. Also, The Red Cotton Fields is a classic love story between the plantation's owner's daughter, Holly Ballaster, and the overseer's son, Bart Royal, The Red Cotton Fields is destined to become a classic. Read it and you will understand why.
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race
Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race write by Stephen Cresswell. This book was released on 2021-01-15. Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mississippi saw great change in the four decades after Reconstruction. Between 1877 and 1917 the state transformed. Its cities increased rapidly in size and saw the advent of electric lights, streetcars, and moving pictures. Farmers diversified their operations, sharply increasing their production of corn, sweet potatoes, and dairy products. Mississippians built large textile mills in a number of cities and increased the number of manufacturing workers tenfold. But many things did not change. In 1917 as in 1877, Mississippi was a top cotton producer and relied more heavily on cotton than on any other product. In 1917 as in 1877 the state had troubled race relations and was all too often the site of lynchings and race riots. Compared with other states in 1917, Mississippi was near the bottom of the list for length of the school year, for percentage of farms that boasted tractors, and for the number of miles of paved or gravel roads. Mississippi was the least urban and most agricultural state in the nation. Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, 1877–1917 examines the paradox of significant change alongside many unbroken continuities. It explores the reasons Mississippi was not more successful in urbanizing, in industrializing, and in reducing its reliance on cotton. The volume closes by looking at events that would move Mississippi closer to the national mainstream.
Dark Journey
Dark Journey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Journey write by Neil R. McMillen. This book was released on 1990. Dark Journey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Remarkable for its relentless truth-telling, and the depth and thoroughness of its investigation, for the freshness of its sources, and for the shock power of its findings. Even a reader who is not unfamiliar with the sources and literature of the subject can be jolted by its impact."--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books "Dark Journey is a superb piece of scholarship, a book that all students of southern and African-American history will find valuable and informative."--David J. Garrow, Georgia Historical Quarterly
