Second Great Emancipation

Name: Second Great Emancipation
Brand: University of Arkansas Press
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The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration and How They Shaped the Modern South

Autor: Donald Holley

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Editura: University of Arkansas Press

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In the "Cotton South" before World War II, every task, from plowing to cultivating to harvesting the...

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Autor

Donald Holley

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2000

Pagini

448

EAN

9781557286062

ISBN

9781557286062

Enbook ID

06374807

Editura

University of Arkansas Press

Greutate

612

Dimensiuni

159 x 229 x 25

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In the "Cotton South" before World War II, every task, from plowing to cultivating to harvesting the crop, was done by hand. These labor-intensive practices, coupled with too many farmers -- both tenants and owners -- trying to survive on small, uneconomical farms, kept the region poor, backward, and unmechanized. From 1940 to 1970, however, in the Great Migration, southern blacks and whites thronged to new opportunities in the postwar, industrial North.In this revisionist study, Donald Holley marshals impressive statistical and narrative evidence to show that mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi only after the region's oversupply of small farmers was reduced. He thereby corrects a long-standing belief that mechanization "pushed" labor off the land.Development of the mechanical cotton picker not only made possible the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, it helped free the region of Jim Crow laws as political power was relocated from farms to cities and thereby opened the door for the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Just as President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed African Americans from chattel slavery, the mechanical cotton picker freed laborers from the drudgery of the cotton harvest and brought the agricultural South into a period of greater prosperity.

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