The cotton plantation South since the Civil War
By: Charles S. Aiken.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
Subjects: Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Cotton growing -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Cotton growing -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Landscape -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Landscape -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Historical geography
Description: Charles Aiken traces the development of the Southern cotton plantation since the Civil War - from the emergence of tenancy after 1865, through its decline during the Depression, to the post-World War II development of the large industrial farm.

Aiken also describes the evolving relationship of African Americans to the cotton plantation during the thirteen decades of economic, social, and political changes from Reconstruction through the War on Poverty - including the impact of alterations in plantation agriculture on the mass migration of Southern blacks to the urban North during the twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-437) and index.