The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South

By Donald Holley

Book Overview

In The Second Great Emancipation , Donald Holley uses statistical and narrative analysis to demonstrate that farm mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155728606X
• ISBN13: 9781557286062
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Black roots in America, both South and North, cannot be fully understood without reading this book.

Every black person in America, who has family roots traceable to the South, would be well served to see their roots from an incredibly enlightening paradigm. ROOTS has a new meaning...found in this great book.