Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War

(Part of the The American South Series Series)

by John C. Willis

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813919827

ISBN13:9780813919829

Release Date:July 2000

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:239 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

19th Century African-American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local

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