A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas

by Jeannie M. Whayne

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813925940
• ISBN13: 9780813925943
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"