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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation

J. William Harris

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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and the Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation

Deep Souths won the Pulitzer Prize in History finalist designation, the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, and the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize from the Agricultural History Society. Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast. Though these regions initially shared the histories and populations we associate with the idea of a "Deep South"—all had economies based on slave plantation labor in 1860—their histories diverged sharply during the three generations after Reconstruction. With research gathered from oral histories, census reports, and a wide variety of other sources, Harris traces these regional changes in cumulative stories of individuals across the social spectrum. Deep Souths presents a comparative and ground-level view of history that challenges the idea that the lower South was either uniform or static in the era of segregation. By the end of the New Deal era, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.

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Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2003
ISBN-13
9780801873102
Genre
History
Topics
Segregation-era American SouthSouthern regional economies and societyRace and labor after Reconstruction

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