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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.
Table des matières
- 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
A propos de l'auteur
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.
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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.
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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.
