When Tobacco Was King - Evan P. Bennett

When Tobacco Was King

Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont

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Buch | Softcover
164 Seiten
2024
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-8056-7 (ISBN)
33,60 inkl. MwSt
Traces the American South’s history from Emancipation to the abandonment of federal crop controls in 2004 and highlights the transformations endured by blacks and whites, landowners and tenants, to show how tobacco farmers continued to find meaning and community in their work despite drastic changes.
Tobacco has left an indelible mark on the American South, shaping the land and culture throughout the twentieth century. In the last few decades, advances in technology and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores. However, the mechanical harvester and the H-2A guestworker did not put an end to tobacco culture but rather sent it in new directions and accelerated the change that has always been part of the farmer’s life.

In When Tobacco Was King, Evan Bennett examines the agriculture of the South’s original staple crop in the Old Bright Belt--a diverse region named after the unique bright, or flue-cured, tobacco variety it spawned. He traces the region’s history from Emancipation to the abandonment of federal crop controls in 2004 and highlights the transformations endured by blacks and whites, landowners and tenants, to show how tobacco farmers continued to find meaning and community in their work despite these drastic changes.

Evan P. Bennett is associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People and coeditor of Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Florida
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 0-8130-8056-8 / 0813080568
ISBN-13 978-0-8130-8056-7 / 9780813080567
Zustand Neuware
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