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Agriculture and the Confederacy
R. Douglas Hurt
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
In this comprehensive history, R. Douglas Hurt traces the decline and fall of agriculture in the Confederate States of America. The backbone of the southern economy, agriculture was a source of power that southerners believed would ensure their independence. But, season by season and year by year, Hurt convincingly shows how the disintegration of southern agriculture led to the decline of the Confederacy's military, economic, and political power. He examines regional variations in the Eastern and Western Confederacy, linking the fates of individual crops and different modes of farming and planting to the wider story. After a dismal harvest in late 1864, southerners--faced with hunger and privation throughout the region--ransacked farms in the Shenandoah Valley and pillaged plantations in the Carolinas and the Mississippi Delta, they finally realized that their agricultural power, and their government itself, had failed. Hurt shows how this ultimate lost harvest had repercussions that lasted well beyond the end of the Civil War.
Assessing agriculture in its economic, political, social, and environmental contexts, Hurt sheds new light on the fate of the Confederacy from the optimism of secession to the reality of collapse.
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tax-in-kind, food prices during the Civil War, slave valuations, money in the Confederacy, sharecropping, tobacco during the Civil War, bread riots, women in agriculture, sugar planters during the Civil War, livestock disease during the Civil War, agriculture in the Confederacy, rice planters during the Civil War, slave prices, crop loan program, Farming in the Confederacy, agricultural impressments, livestock production during the Civil War, cotton diplomacy, Freedmen's Bureau, currency in the Confederacy, cotton planters during the Civil War, agricultural prices during the Civil War, civilian food supply, trading with the enemy, army food supply, cotton burning