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Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South
William M. Mathew
其他書名
The Failure of Agricultural Reform
出版University of Georgia Press, 2012-10
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralHistory / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / SlaveryTechnology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
ISBN08203416739780820341675
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-wBikQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. His findings became the basis for the most progressive and sophisticated reform proposals to be formulated in the slaveholding South. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South.