The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War /
Charles S. Aiken.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (472 pages): illustrations, maps
- Creating the North American landscape .
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License.
Overview of the southern plantation -- From old south to new south plantation -- The demise of the plantation -- Mechanization of the plantation -- The world of plantation blacks -- Mobilization -- Confrontation -- The war on poverty -- School desegregation -- The right to vote : an illusive black power -- New settlement patterns -- Quest for a nonagrarian economy -- Epilogue.