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Book Synopsis This Delta, this Land by : Mikko Saikku
Download or read book This Delta, this Land written by Mikko Saikku and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.
Download or read book Forgotten Time written by John C. Willis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.
Book Synopsis Cotton Kingdom of the New South by : Robert L. Brandfon
Download or read book Cotton Kingdom of the New South written by Robert L. Brandfon and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Cotton Kingdom of the New South".
Book Synopsis Delta Council History, 1938-1943 by : Delta Council
Download or read book Delta Council History, 1938-1943 written by Delta Council and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta by : Southern alluvial land association
Download or read book The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta written by Southern alluvial land association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta by : Alfred Holt Stone
Download or read book The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta written by Alfred Holt Stone and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical document giving a fascinating and stomach turning insight into race relations in the southern United States. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Forgotten Time written by John C. Willis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Americans, whose holdings represented great political and economic strength. Most historical studies of the Delta have either lauded the achievements of its white planters or found its record number of lynchings representative of the worst aspects of the New South. By looking beyond white planters to the region as a whole, John C. Willis uncovers surprising evidence of African-American enterprise, the advantages of tenancy in an unstable cotton market, and the dominance of foreign-born merchants in the area, including many Chinese. Examining the lives of individuals--freedmen, planters, and merchants--Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Delta began to devolve back into a stereotypical southern region with African Americans cast back into an impoverished, debt-ridden labor system. The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta has long been seen as a focal point for the study of Reconstruction, and Forgotten Time enters this historiographical tradition at the same time that it reverses many of its central assumptions.
Download or read book The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yazoo River written by Frank E. Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the United States, the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo
Book Synopsis The Most Southern Place on Earth by : James C. Cobb
Download or read book The Most Southern Place on Earth written by James C. Cobb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was in 1860: a land of rich soil, wealthy planters, and desperate poverty--the blackest and poorest counties in all the South. And yet it is a cultural treasure house as well--the home of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charley Pride, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Spencer, and Shelby Foote. Painting a fascinating portrait of the development and survival of the Mississippi Delta, a society and economy that is often seen as the most extreme in all the South, James C. Cobb offers a comprehensive history of the Delta, from its first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. Exploring the rich black culture of the Delta, Cobb explains how it survived and evolved in the midst of poverty and oppression, beginning with the first settlers in the overgrown, disease-ridden Delta before the Civil War to the bitter battles and incomplete triumphs of the civil rights era. In this comprehensive account, Cobb offers new insight into "the most southern place on earth," untangling the enigma of grindingly poor but prolifically creative Mississippi Delta.
Book Synopsis The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (Classic Reprint) by : Alfred H. Stone
Download or read book The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta (Classic Reprint) written by Alfred H. Stone and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta In the state of Mississippi, between the 3zud and 3sth parallels of north latitude, its entire western border washed by the Mississippi river, and most of its eastern by the Yazoo, extending north from the confluence of those streams at a point just above the city of Vicks burg, lies the strip of territory known as the Yazoo Mississippi delta. The exact origin of the word delta, as applied to this region, is not clear; though it was probably a simple extension of the old and accepted use of the word, descriptive both of the character and of the peculiar formation of the land built up by the diverging mouths of large silt-bearing streams. The character of the soil certainly justifies such a conclusion, for it is entirely of alluvial formation, detritus deposited during thousands of years in which the Mississippi has poured out its muddy flood waters over the adjacent country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Steamboats and the Cotton Economy by : Harry P. Owens
Download or read book Steamboats and the Cotton Economy written by Harry P. Owens and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book to make a detailed exploration of the system of riverboat traffic of the Delta region, "Steamboats and the Cotton Economy" is also the first balanced study showing how steamboats in the early years of the republic performed essentially the same role that railroads would later perform in revolutionizing the interior of the nation. Today, the mention of steamboats conjures up romantic visions of cotton landings and mythological river traders. Some of the steamboats plying the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta waterways give form to the myth. Others call forth the true work-a-day world of steamers loaded with passengers, freight, and sacks of cotton seed. Such ubiquitous trade boats, cotton, gin boats, sawmills boats, as well as ice and mail boats, not only helped to build the Cotton Kingdom but also added rich texture and color to the history of the Delta. In discovering the role of steamboats in the everyday life of the Mississippi Delta, this book reveals the vital economic
Book Synopsis (The) Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Containing Information about the Super-soil Region of Northwest Mississippi ... by : Southern alluvial land association
Download or read book (The) Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Containing Information about the Super-soil Region of Northwest Mississippi ... written by Southern alluvial land association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Steamboats & Cotton Economy by : Harry P. Owens
Download or read book Steamboats & Cotton Economy written by Harry P. Owens and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economic and Social Structure of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta by : Charles Felder Reynolds
Download or read book The Economic and Social Structure of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta written by Charles Felder Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Prospectus of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta by : Delta Council, Stoneville, Miss
Download or read book A Prospectus of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta written by Delta Council, Stoneville, Miss and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis RAISING COMMUNITY: ADAPTATION in the YAZOO MISSISSIPPI DELTA by : Scott Marble
Download or read book RAISING COMMUNITY: ADAPTATION in the YAZOO MISSISSIPPI DELTA written by Scott Marble and published by . This book was released on 2023-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
