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New South-New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South (WALTER LYNWOOD FLEMING LECTURES IN SOUTHERN HISTORY)

Hardcover – January 1, 1995
by Woodman, Harold D.
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ISBN-13: 9780807119419 ISBN-10: 0807119415
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Brand: Louisiana State University Press
Binding
Hardcover
Published
January 1, 1995
Weight
1.0 lbs
Dimensions
23.50×1.30×15.90 cm

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New South-New Law: The Legal Foundations of Credit and Labor Relations in the Postbellum Agricultural South (WALTER LYNWOOD FLEMING LECTURES IN SOUTHERN HISTORY) by Woodman, Harold D.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807119419.

Examines the legal and economic strategies adopted by southern landowners to cultivate and profit from their land when the abolition of chattel slavery deprived them of their primary form of wealth and credit. Woodman (history, Purdue U.) explores the evolution of these strategies and how they affected the landowners, former slaves, merchants, and lenders. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.