Origins Southern Sharecropping

by Edward Royce

Vivid primary accounts of post-Civil War life by planters and freed slaves complement this study of the rise of southern sharecropping. Edward Royce employs both historical and sociological methods to probe the question of why slavery was replaced by sharecropping rather than by some other labor arrangement. His detailed analysis illuminates conflicts between labor and capital as one group struggles to preserve the plantation system while the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566390699
• ISBN13: 9781566390699
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"