Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War

by John C. Willis

Book Overview

Although it came to epitomize the Cotton South in the twentieth century, the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta emerged as a distinct entity in the decades following the Civil War. As other southerners confronted the need to rebuild, the Delta remained mostly wilderness in 1865. Elsewhere, planters struggled to maintain the perquisites of slaveholding and poor families tried desperately to escape the sharecropper's lot, yet Delta landlords offered generous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813919827
• ISBN13: 9780813919829
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"