A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas by Jeannie M. Whayne

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas

Carter G. Woodson Institute

Jeannie M. Whayne

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Whayne traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War. By manipulating laws and federal and state agencies to gain control over land policy, Poinsett County planters fo...

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