Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Holley, Donald (1940-....)
Titre(s) : The second great emancipation [Texte imprimé] : the mechanical cotton picker, Black migration, and how they shaped the modern South / Donald Holley
Publication : Fayetteville (Ark.) : University of Arkansas, 2000
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI- 284 p., [8] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 217-274. Index
"Donald Holley marshals statistical and narrative evidence to show that mechanization
occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi only after the
region's oversupply of small farmers was reduced. He thereby corrects a long-standing
belief that mechanization "pushed" labor off the land." ; "Development of the mechanical
cotton picker not only made possible the continuation of cotton cultivation in the
post-plantation era, it helped free the region of Jim Crow laws as political power
was relocated from farms to cities and thereby opened the door for the civil rights
movement of the 1950s. Just as President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed
African Americans from chattel slavery, the mechanical cotton picker freed laborers
from the drudgery of the cotton harvest and brought the agricultural South into a
period of prosperity."--Jacket
Sujet(s) : Coton -- Industrie et commerce -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle
Producteurs de coton -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle
Plantations de coton -- Personnel -- Conditions sociales -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle
Mécanisation agricole -- États-Unis (sud) -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
338.109 7309 (23e éd.) = Agriculture (économie) - États-Unis - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 155728606X (erroné). - ISBN 9781557286062 (erroné). - ISBN 9781682261064 (br.).
- ISBN 1682261069 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46898383t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46898383
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Ch. 1.. Mules and Tenants: Hand Labor in the Cotton South -- ; Ch. 2.. "Too Much Land,
Too Many Mules, and Too Much Ignorant Labor" -- ; Ch. 3.. Inventions and Inventors:
The Challenge of Mechanical Cotton Picking -- ; Ch. 4.. The Agricultural Adjustment
Administration and Structural Change in the Cotton South -- ; Ch. 5.. Impending Revolution:
John Rust and Reactions to His Machine -- ; Ch. 6.. Cotton Harvester Sweepstakes:
The Race for the Cotton Picker Market in the 1940s -- ; Ch. 7.. The Cotton South's
Gradual Revolution, 1950-1970 -- ; Ch. 8.. Mechanization, Black Migration, and the
Labor Supply in the Cotton South -- ; Ch. 9.. The Great Migration and the Mechanical
Cotton Picker: Cause or Effect? -- ; Ch. 10.. The Consequences of Cotton Mechanization.
