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Cotton Kingdom of the New South

A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century

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ISBN 9780674734005

Publication Date: 01/01/1967

227 pages

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  • Preface
  • 1. The New South: A New Old Land
  • 2. The Alluvial Empire
  • 3. The Process of Progress
  • 4. A Marriage of Interests
  • 5. With a View to Upbuilding the Country
  • 6. A Twentieth Century Cotton Kingdom
  • 7. The End of Immigration to the Cotton Fields
  • 8. A Reckoning with the Railroad
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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