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416 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195089134
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 04 August 1994
Description
"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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416 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780195089134
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 04 August 1994
Description
"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...