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This book traces the evolution of cotton culture in the region bordering the Mississippi River. The author examines the society supported by that industry, emphasizing technological changes that transformed cotton plantations into agricultural equivalents of factories and slaves into skilled and highly productive farm workers. Unlike other studies of antebellum southern agriculture, this book examines the contributions to the success of the cotton...
15) Black April
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The story of Black April "a giant negro foreman" of a plantation who dominates the lives and love affairs of all the other black folk. Poignant portrait of daily life and folk beliefs of the Gullah African-American of the South Carolina coast and nearby islands.
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Centers on the extended visit of Helen Wentworth, a New England teacher, to a childhood friend's plantation, where she witnesses African slaves' arrivals and their sale and gross mistreatment at the hands of coffee and sugar planters. Juanita is a beautiful mulatta slave with whom the plantation owner's son falls in love. Extending the tradition of Gothic fiction in the Americas, Mann's novel raises questions about the relation of slavery in the Caribbean...
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