Search Results for slavery

...Gavin Wright Abstract This essay considers the role of slavery in American agricultural history by examining the impact of political decisions during the period when the boundary between free and slave states was not yet settled. This boundary was not dictated by geographic imperatives. In Kentucky...

...Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865 . Armstead L. Robinson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring Heineman, a brilliant and determined Chicago attorney, forced...

...Jacob A. Bruggeman Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management . By Caitlin Rosenthal . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2018 . 312 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-6749-7209-4. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 Book Reviews 283 intertwined material...

...Paul Christopher Anderson Slavery and the American South . Winthrop D. Jordan . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 112 / Agricultural History More worrisome is the lack of a thesis. Event after event occurs, trend after trend play themselves out, but rarely does...

...Ty M. Reese Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850 . Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 374 / Agricultural History observed contracting practices in agriculture. Most chapters closely follow papers previously...

...Nan Elizabeth Woodruff A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration . Steven Hahn . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 Book Reviews / 249 Jackson Hole airport. Her discussions of these topics are incisive...

...Jean Elliott Russo Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Slavery and American Economic Development . Gavin Wright . AgriculturHalistory Summer industry became more competitive. However, Kee notes that "some small, independent processors chose to not do business...

...Stanley L. Engerman Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society . Eric Burin . Agricultural History Summer Slaveryand thePeculiarSolution:A Historyof theAmericanColoniza tionSociety.By Eric Burin...

...Matt D. Childs Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados . Russell R. Menard . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 2008 Book Reviews ness of the land (21). Planters' agricultural approach led to widespread erosion, loss of fertility...

...Loren Schweninger "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe": Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia . Daina Ramey Berry . 2009 BookReviews andpost-industrisaolcietiesand identifietshecentralproblemofhistorians andallothersinhighereducationc:reatingan academicculturethatprovides...

...David B. Parker The Short Life of Free Georgia: Class and Slavery in the Colonial South . By Noeleen McIlvenna . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2016 . 158 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-4696-2403-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 200...

...Michael F. Magliari Borderlands of Slavery: The Struggle over Captivity and Peonage in the American Southwest . By William S. Kiser . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . 280 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4903-3. © 2019 Agricultural History Society...

...Ebony Jones Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica . By Sasha Turner . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 . 328 pp., $45 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4918-7. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews Latin America...

...Dexnell Peters Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue . By Paul Cheney . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $40.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2260-7935-6. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 Book Reviews 551 Cul de Sac...

... of agroforestry. Turning the Tree Plantations of Slavery into Agroforests for Everyman: A Piece of Landscape History from Pemba Island, Zanzibar CHRISTOPHER A. CONTE This essay argues that agroforestry is deeply embedded in the history of tropical agriculture in the Indian Ocean basin. Drawing on the example...

...Scott P. Marler © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom . By Walter Johnson . Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2013 . 560 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-04555-2 . Agricultural...

...Frederick Knight Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750–1807 . By Justin Roberts . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . 368 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-107-02585-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book Reviews found...

...David Ryden A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic . By Simon P. Newman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Francis Danquah Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade, and Slavery in Atlantic Africa . Edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, and Silke Strickrodt . Woodbridge : Boydell and Brewer , 2013 . 272 pp., $90.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-84701-075-9 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Barbara Hahn Empire of Cotton: A Global History . By Sven Beckert . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2014 . 640 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5 . The Half has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism . By Edward E. Baptist . New York...