Mockingbird Song
to food production. Then, as the natives disappeared (owing to flight or to death from overwork or disease), the Spanish, the Po ...
most of the Italian newcomers ducked their contracts and fled to New Orleans in short time.^4 Ultimately in the American plantat ...
inquiries, because agriculture had already there arrived to its lowest state of degradation....Theland owners in this are, with ...
ating an order of capitalists, was leveled directly at our prosperity, and [that we had] the magnanimous perseverance to get rid ...
and happy,’’ he declared, if treated kindly and firmly. Plantation overseers were essential to labor management, yet planters’ m ...
plowing. Its real foundation, though, was grass and cattle manure. The most blessed of Englishmen, to paraphrase Galsworthy, wer ...
vegetative resources. Landon Carter’s generation had herded and espe- cially penned cattle, demonstrating a managerial modernism ...
barely recognizable as shells. Europeans knew marl well through long ex- perimental use. No one, including Edmund Ruffin, unders ...
ous, because plants receive nitrogen essential for growth from the air, via rainfall, and from phosphorus and other minerals pre ...
eldest son on the James, from which the elder Ruffin himself had fled just in time, among the graffiti soldiers left on walls wa ...
Chattahoochee, Coosa, and beyond, to that most interesting lower Missis- sippi system.^9 tA slave-remade South Atlantic region w ...
this time Craven, like many of his historian contemporaries in the United States, had become consumed with analyzing the origins ...
open frontiers seemed to do to land; farmers felt no need to maintain fer- tility in settled places, since there was always fres ...
practices, and other reasons (some to be explored later), often were not neat, symmetrical, and aesthetically pleasing, especial ...
There was much, indeed, for committed easterners to feel gloomy about. Their kin and friends were departing for faraway places n ...
cure and familiar. At least this was the case for men, who ruled; women were often less eager migrants. But altogether, migratio ...
Ruins of a plantation house near Marshall, Texas, . Photo by Russell Lee. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF--D). ...
Millions of West and Central Africans were victims of the cruelest of pushes, across the Atlantic. In the Americas, millions wer ...
Soil erosion, Stewart County, Georgia, , later the site of a state park popularly known as Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon. Ph ...
Loading cotton, Natchez, Mississippi, . Photo by Ben Shahn. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-USF--M DLC). ...
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