Arkansas 1860 Productions of Agriculture, Pike County
Author : Mrs. Jeff Magee
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
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Category : Farmers
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Author : Mrs. Jeff Magee
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Page : 19 pages
File Size : 31,30 MB
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Category : Farmers
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Author : Kelly Houston Jones
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0820368210
In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.
Author : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Government publications
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Canada
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Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Statistical Reporting Service
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 38,49 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Jeannie Whayne
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 080713855X
In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father’s death in 1870, Robert E. “Lee” Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as little as fifty cents an acre, to satisfy an expanding national market for Arkansas forest reserves. He also led the fundamental transformation of the landscape, involving the drainage of tens of thousands of acres of land, in order to create the vast agricultural empire he envisioned. A consummate manager, Wilson employed the tenancy and sharecropping system to his advantage while earning a reputation for fair treatment of laborers, a reputation—Whayne suggests—not entirely deserved. He cultivated a cadre of relatives and employees from whom he expected absolute devotion. Leveraging every asset during his life and often deeply in debt, Wilson saved his company from bankruptcy several times, leaving it to the next generation to successfully steer the business through the challenges of the 1930s and World War II. Delta Empire traces the transition from the labor-intensive sharecropping and tenancy system to the capital-intensive neo-plantations of the post–World War II era to the portfolio plantation model. Through Wilson’s story Whayne provides a compelling case study of strategic innovation and the changing economy of the South in the late nineteenth century.
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Joseph Thomas
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Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Geography
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Page : 834 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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