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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cotton plantations"”.
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Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
… use of forced labor in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through personal research including interviews with other descendents of McCurdy, as well as scholarly research about the practice of convict …
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Law, Labor, and Land in the Postbellum Cotton South: The Peonage Cases in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1865--1940
… After World War I, the boll weevil devastated cotton agriculture in Oglethorpe County. In addition to the boll weevil, the Great Depression and the mechanization of agriculture spelled the end of the cotton plantations of Oglethorpe County. The decline of the cotton plantations destroyed the …
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Essays on Crime and Social Inequality
… linking punitive attitudes toward enslaved Black cotton pickers to intensified law enforcement practices a century later. Using FBI Uniform Crime Reporting data, I estimate the causal impact of historical cotton plantations on racial disparities in drug-related arrests. Counties with higher cotton …
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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"
… ""Promised Land"" that included vast fields of cotton farmed by sharecroppers. It explores the ways in which African Americans acted as central agents in this transformation through their labor in the forests and fields, their planning visions, politics and their influence on the built …