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Seavoy, Ronald E.

The American peasantry : southern agricultural labor and its
legacy, 1850-1995 : a study in political economy / Ronald E. Seavoy.

p. cm. -- (Contributions in economics and economic history,
ISSN 0084-9235; no. 200)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-313-27511-4 (alk. paper)

1. Agricultural laborers-Southern States -- History. 2. Peasantry --
Southern States -- History. I. Title. II. Series.
HD1527.S85S37 1998
331.7'83'0975 -- dc21 98-11164

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.

Copyright © 1998 by Ronald E. Seavoy

All fights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-11164
ISBN: 0-313-27511-4
ISSN: 0084-9235

First published in 1998

Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permissionw for use of the following:

Maps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 reprinted by permission of Louisiana State University Press from Atlas of
Antebellum Southern Agriculture, by Sam Bowers Hilliard. Copyright © 1984 by Louisiana State
University Press.

Map 6 reprinted by permission of Geoscience Publications from "The Tidewater Rice Plantation: An
Ingenious Adaption to Nature", by Sam B. Hilliard, originally published in Geoscience and Man, vol.
12 ( 1975): 63.

Map 8 reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers from "The Demise of the Piedmont Cotton
Region", by Merle C. Prunty and Charles S. Aiken, originally published in Annals of the Association
of American Geographers, vol. 62 ( 1972): 285.

Map 9 reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers from "The Demise of King Cotton", by John F. Hart
, originally published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 67 ( 1977):
320.

Excerpts from You Have Seen Their Faces by Erskine Caldwell. Copyright © 1937 by Erskine Caldwell.
From You Have Seen Their Faces published by The Viking Press. Reprinted by permission of
McIntosh & Otis, Inc.

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