Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South Silkenat David
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South Silkenat David They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton…
Specifikacia Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South Silkenat David
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South Silkenat David
They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. By day, they plucked worms and insects from the crops, trod barefoot in the mud as they hoed rice fields, and endured the sun and humidity as they planted and harvested the fields. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment.
Over two centuries, from the establishment of slavery in the Chesapeake to the Civil War, one By night, they clandestinely took to the woods and swamps to trap opossums and turtles, to visit relatives living on adjacent plantations, and at times to escape slave patrols and escape to freedom.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.