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Standing Their Ground
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Departing from the conventional story, this book focuses on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era. It reveals that the transformation was more protracted and more contested than historians have understood it to be. Even though the number of farm owners gradually declined over the course of the century, the desire to farm endured among landless farmers, who became landowners during key moments of opportunity. Moreover, this book departs from other studies by considering all farm owners as a single class, rejecting the widespread approach of segregating black farm owners. The violent and restrictive political culture of Jim Crow regime, far from only affecting black farmers, limited the ability of all farmers to resist changes in agriculture.
By the 1970s, the vast reduction in the number of small farm owners had simultaneously destroyed a Southern yeomanry that had been the symbol of American democracy since the time of Thomas Jefferson, rolled back gains in landownership that families achieved during the first half century after the Civil War, and remade the rural South from an agrarian society to a site of global agribusiness.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2013-09-24
Publication Date:
2013-09-24
Publisher:
OUP US
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0199938520
ISBN13:
9780199938520
Weight:
665 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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