Scars on the Land - An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1 An Exhausted Soil


• Chapter 2 An Animal Without Hope


• Chapter 3 Dragged Out by the Roots


• Chapter 4 Breeches in the Levee


• Chapter 5 A Southern Cyclone


• Chapter 6 An Inhospitable Refuge


• Chapter 7 Landscape of Freedom


• Acknowledgments


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

David Silkenat is a Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several books, including Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War, a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.

Summary

Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.

Additional text

Ambitious in scope, rigorously researched, and wonderfully written, David Silkenat's Scars on the Land is a tour de force. The book blends environmental history, the history of slavery, and southern history, serving as a model for each field. It should be required reading not just in undergraduate and graduate classrooms but also for environmental organizations such as the Audubon Society.

Product details

• Authors: David Silkenat, David (Senior Lecturer in American Histo Silkenat, David (Senior Lecturer in American History Silkenat, Silkenat David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780197564226
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756422-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Specific wars and campaigns, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), American War of Independence, Central Southern States, Slavery and abolition of slavery, US South, c 1860 to c 1869, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, Civil wars, American Civil War