Mockingbird Song
Neuse, Ashley, and Cooper (among other seaboard, long-settled places) there were plantation mansions already old. Most were cons ...
ests were cleared, cotton harvested, and money made, perhaps more dis- tant slave quarters might be constructed, or slaves might ...
war service, and cattle, hogs, and fowl were carried off and consumed by soldiers of both sides in the conflict. Fences, the ubi ...
cept for a few animals secreted from the Yankees by his neighbor Hill Carter of Shirley plantation across the James. General Gra ...
ance, and brokerage fees. Thus began a vast reorganization of most plan- tations, plus the beginning of decades of struggle betw ...
ground to exploit, probably in some new delta or blackland prairie.^16 Here are the origins of the notoriously benighted South o ...
faster than marl or lime, of course, but for a few years, supplemented by other manures, the residues of wood ashes helped produ ...
she toured the piedmont plantation belt with Erskine Caldwell, who made up captions for the photos in their work,You Have Seen T ...
sharecropped plantations, no less than centralized ones, required inter- ested, resident managers. For a variety of reasons, rep ...
Florida migrant workers bound for New Jersey, Currituck County, North Carolina, . Photo by Jack Delano. Courtesy Library of ...
Migrant construction worker and his family, Portsmouth, Virginia, . Photo by John Vachon. Courtesy Library of Congress (LC-U ...
to persuade fruit ranchers to switch to cotton. Camp had been raised on an up-country South Carolina cotton farm and educated at ...
ticides, anhydrous ammonia (a superfertilizer that discouraged soil con- servation), and huge tractors and harvesters. Hardly an ...
tions recall unhappy aspects of the last strife-torn decades of sharecropping and—perhaps more—doleful episodes in California’s ...
Finally, much of the hilliest, most eroded landscape in the benighted South of the s was indeed greened, and healed, by a st ...
There were eight of the pigs. The first thing I heard every morning at daybreak was the whole outfit crashing under the fence an ...
ports, suggesting that supposedly indolent Carolinians not only subsisted on range swine but were engaged in a well-organized an ...
ratio was thirteen-to-one. At the next federal census—after Mississippi’s south had become more populous—twenty-three counties s ...
delphian Pierce Butler. Butler’s fortune rested in part on his family’s hun- dreds of slaves and huge rice and sea-island cotton ...
take on King’s revelations. Later, speaking for herself, Fanny declared ‘‘the so-called pinelanders of Georgia...themostdegraded ...
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