Essays on the postbellum southern economy

Author(s)

• Glymph, Thavolia
• Kushma, John J. (John James)
• University of Texas at Arlington

Bibliographic Information

Essays on the postbellum southern economy

by Thavolia Glymph ... [et al.] ; introduction by Thavolia Glymph ; edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma

（The Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures, 18）

Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, c1985

1st ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A fledgling system of capitalist agriculture transformed former slaves into wage workers and former masters into employers, yet neither group could comfortably fit into its new role. Armstead L. Robinson discusses black freedom in the postbellum South and the new set of social relationships that emerged, while Thavolia Glymph traces the evolution of the share-wage system into sharecropping. Barbara J. Fields explores the erratic advance of capitalism in the New South and its effects on the southern economy. Harold D. Woodman concludes that emancipation alone could not guarantee the triumph of a completely new social order on post-war cotton plantations.

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• NCID: BA03259738
• ISBN:
  • 0890962278
• LCCN: 84040564
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: College Station [Tex.]
• Pages/Volumes: 119 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC107.A13
  • DC19 : 330.975
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Southern States -- Economic conditions -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0107668X