When Tobacco Was King (eBook)

Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont

Evan P. Bennett (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
162 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
9780813073354 (ISBN)

Infos

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and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores.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 farmers life.In When Tobacco Was King, Evan Bennett examines the agriculture of the Souths original staple crop in the Old Bright Belta diverse region named after the unique bright, or flue-cured, tobacco variety it spawned. He traces the regions 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Gewicht: 367 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • American South • bright leaf tobacco • bright tobacco • community culture • crops • danville • Emancipation • Families • Farmers • Farmers Alliance • Farmers Union • Farm Families • Farming Policy • farm labor • federal crop controls • Federal policy • Federal Tobacco Program • Flue-cured tobacco • Grange • History • labor disruption • Labor Policy • landowning • Modernization • North Carolina • Old Bright Belt • outmigration • Piedmont • plantation • rural south • Slavery • tenant farms • Tenants • tobacco • Tobacco crop • tobacco farmers • tobacco South • Tri-State Tobacco Growers Cooperative • Virginia
• ISBN-13: 9780813073354 / 9780813073354