Deep Souths

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Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation by J. William Harris, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

excerpt from book jacket:  Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta. Though at first these regions shared the histories and populations we associate with the “Deep South”–all had economies based on slave plantation labor in 1860–their histories diverged sharply during the three generations after Reconstruction. Deep Souths presents a comparative, ground-level view of history that challenges the idea that the lower South was either uniform or static in the era of segregation. By the end of the New Deal, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, Co-winner of the Organization of American Historians’ James A. Rawley Prize, Winner of the Agricultural History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize