Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South / David Silkenat.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]Copyright date: Ã2022Description: 1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197564257 (ebook) :Subject(s): Slavery -- Southern States -- History | Slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions | Slave labor -- Southern States -- History | Plantation workers -- Southern States -- History | Southern States -- Race relations | Southern States -- Environmental conditionsAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197564226DDC classification: 306.3620975 LOC classification: E441Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud as they hoed rice fields, and endured the sun and humidity as they planted and harvested the fields. By night, they clandestinely took to the woods and swamps to trap opossums and turtles, to visit relatives living on adjacent plantations, and at times to escape slave patrols and escape to freedom. This book presents a comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud as they hoed rice fields, and endured the sun and humidity as they planted and harvested the fields. By night, they clandestinely took to the woods and swamps to trap opossums and turtles, to visit relatives living on adjacent plantations, and at times to escape slave patrols and escape to freedom. This book presents a comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.
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