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A New Plantation South

Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas

Jeannie M Whayne author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Published:29th Jun '96

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Jeannie M. Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and federal and state agencies to gain control over land policy, Poinsett County planters fought to maintain their place on the land amidst tenancy, sharecropping, and the mechanization of farming.

ISBN: 9780813925943

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342 pages