Vivid primary accounts of post-Civil War life by planters and freed slaves complement this study of the rise of southern sharecropping. Edward Royce employs both historical and sociological methods to probe the question of why slavery was replaced by sharecropping rather than by some other labor arrangement. His detailed analysis illuminates conflicts between labor and capital as one group struggles to preserve the plantation system while the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1566390699
ISBN13:9781566390699
Release Date:October 1993
Publisher:Temple University Press
Length:279 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
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