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Migration in the Cotton South: The Geographic Mobility of Alabama Farmers, 1850-1860.
In 1855, in an address before the Chunnenuggee Horticultural Society, Clement C. Clay described the migration of farmers from the Tennessee Valley region of Alabama. The small planters, Clay observed, "after taking the cream off their lands," were going westward in search of new land. Wealthier …
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Law, Labor, and Land in the Postbellum Cotton South: The Peonage Cases in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1865--1940
… federal case of peonage (debt labor) in the South. During the next ten years, the federal government investigated and prosecuted hundreds of employers across the South for practicing peonage. Although the literature discusses some of the important peonage cases, it lacks an analysis of how …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in power struggles over space, and the nature of struggle in the Border South, has been under-analyzed. This dissertation looks at the significance of space and place to African …