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Tracing the geographical changes in plantation agriculture and the plantation regions after 1865, Aiken shows how the altered landscape of the South has led many to the false conclusion that the plantation has vanished. In fact, he explains, while certain regions of the South have reverted to other uses, the cotton plantation survives in a form that is, in many ways, remarkably similar to that of its antebellum predecessors. Aiken also describes the evolving relationship of African-Americans to the cotton plantation during the 13 decades of economic, social and political changes from Reconstruction through the War on Poverty - including the impact of alterations in plantation agriculture and the mass migration of Southern blacks to the urban North during the 20th century.

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Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South.--Stephen S. Birdsall Economic Geography

Any serious student of the geography of the United States will want to have it in their library. -- Richard H. Jackson, Geographical Review Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South. -- Stephen S. Birdsall, Economic Geography A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read, discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern history. -- Harold D. Woodman, Journal of Southern History Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South.--Stephen S. Birdsall Economic Geography Any serious student of the geography of the United States will want to have it in their library.--Richard H. Jackson Geographical Review A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read, discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern history.--Harold D. Woodman Journal of Southern History A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read, discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern history. -- Harold D. Woodman, Journal of Southern History Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South. -- Stephen S. Birdsall, Economic Geography Any serious student of the geography of the United States will want to have it in their library. -- Richard H. Jackson, Geographical Review

A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read, discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern history. —Harold D. Woodman, Journal of Southern History Any serious student of the geography of the United States will want to have it in their library. —Richard H. Jackson, Geographical Review Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South. —Stephen S. Birdsall, Economic Geography

<p> A brief review can only hint at Aiken's exciting, original, and insightful contributions. This splendid book deserves to be read, discussed, and debated among all serious students of southern history. -- Harold D. Woodman, Journal of Southern History

<p>Charles Aiken has written a book in clear, readable prose that should be read by anyone with an interest in or opinion about the American South.--Stephen S. Birdsall Economic Geography

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Charles S. Aiken is professor of geography at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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