The Story of Soil Conservation in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1800-1860 (Classic Reprint)

The Story of Soil Conservation in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1800-1860 (Classic Reprint) PDF

Author: Arthur R Hall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780365137207

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Excerpt from The Story of Soil Conservation in the South Carolina Piedmont, 1800-1860 Lieber and others agitated for a repeal of the fence law. The arguments used were that many animals were lost by being allowed to roam at large, that pure breeds of livestock were difficult to main tain under the system, that no manure could be saved, and that the destruction of woodland necessary to keep up fences caused erosion and silting. All these arguments seemed to indicate that the fence law no longer met the needs of the community, but a reform in the law was to await the post bellum period (5 50, pp. 105 - 106, 124 - 129) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Keepers of the Land

Keepers of the Land PDF

Author: South Carolina Association of Soil Conservation District Supervisors. History Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 154

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Old South/new South

Old South/new South PDF

Author: Gavin Wright

Publisher: New York : Basic Books

Published: 1986-05-13

Total Pages: 340

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An original and economically rigorous analysis of the role of slavery in generating economic "backwardness." Wright traces key reasons for the South's century-long status as a second-class country-within-a-country, and assesses the legacy of slavery, the material devastation and social upheaval of the Civil War, and the colonial exploitation of the South by northern capital. He maintains that above all the defining feature of the southern economy was the isolation of its labor market from national and international development. On this basis, Wright explains the sharecropping system, the Populist revolt, the South's limited investment in the education of its own people, and the low-skill, low-productivity, "colonial" character of the region's industrial progress. Only the intervention of the Federal Government during the Great Depression, the author argues, destroyed the bases of the South's low-wage economy, led to long-delayed mechanization of the plantation, helped close the North-South wage gap, and created massive out-migration of unskilled labor during and after World War II. With the demise of the plantation regime, the South opened its doors to outside flows of capital and labor.