Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South by David Silkenat

Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

David Silkenat

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics history challenging informative medium-paced
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They worked Virginia's tobacco fields, South Carolina's rice marshes, and the Black Belt's cotton plantations. Wherever they lived, enslaved people found their lives indelibly shaped by the Southern environment. By day, they plucked worms and inse...

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