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Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South / David Silkenat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silkenat, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology.
- Plantation workers--Southern States--History.
- Plantation workers.
- Race relations.
- Slave trade--Environmental aspects--Southern States.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--Southern States--History.
- Slavery.
- Enslaved persons--Southern States--Social conditions.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave labor--Southern States--History.
- Slave labor.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Environmental conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 264 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- 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.
- Contents:
- An exhausted soil
- An animal without hope
- Dragged out by the roots
- Breaches in the levee
- A southern cyclone
- An inhospitable refuge
- Landscape of freedom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Silkenat, David Scars on the Land
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756425-9
- 0-19-756423-2
- 0-19-756424-0
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