Bolton (history, U. of Southern Mississippi) illuminates the social complexity surrounding the lives of a group consistently dismissed as rednecks, crackers, and white trash: landless white tenants and laborers in the era of slavery. A short epilogue looks at their lives today. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.
In Christ Church Parish, South Carolina, entrepreneurs erected a factory “for the manufacture of Tubs, Pails and Brooms,” employing in their establishment slaves “and also white operatives . . . whose residence is in such close ...
He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools ...
For additional interpretations stressing the infrequency of the lynching of ... 1933), 268-69; R. Douglas Hurt, Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri's Little Dixie (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992), 248-50. 7.
See also Kenneth S. Greenberg, ed., The Confessions of Nat Turner and Related Documents (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1996), 8-9. 19. H. A. Rockafield, TheManheim Tragedy: A Complete History of the Double Murder of Mrs.
... Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest : Mississippi , 1770-1860 ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University , 1988 ) , 226 . 17. Ward and Rogers , Alabama's Response to the Penitentiary Movement , 1829-1865 , 101-4 , 109 ...
Mr. and Mrs. Peacock and their children in front of their home in Coffee County, Alabama, April 1939, airing quilts. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. (Courtesy of Farm Security Administration Photographs, Library of Congress) When children ...
"In this book Bruce Collins adopts a fresh perspective to re-examine white society in the American South before the Civil War. He starts with the central fact that Southern whites...
4614, p. 830 (whites, age ten); Meigs and Cooper, comps., The Code of Tennessee, art. III, sec. 2625, part 7, p. 509 (slaves, age twelve). 11. Sharkey, Harris, and Ellett, comps., Mississippi Revised Code, ch. 33, sec. 11, art. 58, p.
White. Liberals. These people are creating a terrible problem in our cities. They can't or won't hold a job, they flout the law constantly and neglect their children, they drink too much and their moral standards would shame an alley ...