The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity by James C. Cobb

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity

James C. Cobb

416 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and...

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