Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South / David Silkenat.
2022
HT901 .S52 2022eb
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Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South / David Silkenat.
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0197564240
9780197564240 (electronic bk.)
9780197564226
9780197564240 (electronic bk.)
9780197564226
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (273 pages)
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HT901 .S52 2022eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3620975
Summary
Scars on the Land is the first 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. An Exhausted Soil
2. An Animal without Hope
3. Dragged Out by the Roots
4. Breaches in the Levee
5. A Southern Cyclone
6. An Inhospitable Refuge
7. Landscape of Freedom
Conclusion.
1. An Exhausted Soil
2. An Animal without Hope
3. Dragged Out by the Roots
4. Breaches in the Levee
5. A Southern Cyclone
6. An Inhospitable Refuge
7. Landscape of Freedom
Conclusion.