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

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They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in t...

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Main Author: Silkenat, David (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Enslaved persons > 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.
Esclavage > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Ecology
Plantation workers
Race relations
Slave labor
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Social conditions
Southern States
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