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Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silkenat, David (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Academic
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Slaves > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slave labor > Southern States > History.
Plantation workers > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Race relations.
Southern States > Environmental conditions.
Esclaves > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Travail > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Travailleurs des plantations > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions environnementales.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Exhausted Soil
  • 2. An Animal without Hope
  • 3. Dragged Out by the Roots
  • 4. Breaches in the Levee
  • 5. A Southern Cyclone
  • 6. An Inhospitable Refuge
  • 7. Landscape of Freedom
  • Conclusion.