American Congo / / Nan Elizabeth WOODRUFF.
This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Forging of the Alluvial Empire
- 2 Tensions of Empire
- 3 The Killing Fields
- 4 The Black People's Burden
- 5 Revolt against Mean Things
- 6 A War within a War
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index