Years of the Locust, 1865–1885

More than seventy-five years passed before tobacco was again cultivated as a cash crop in South Carolina. Over these eight decades, South Carolina deepened its commitment to rice, cotton, and slavery and marched in lockstep with world markets to the cadence of the overseer’s lash. In the 1820s, Sout...

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Published inLong Green p. 17
Main Authors Eldred E. Prince, ROBERT R. SIMPSON
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Georgia Press 01.01.2013
Subjects
Agricultural economics
Agricultural geography
Agricultural land
Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Agronomy
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Business
Business administration
Cash
Civil law
Cotton
Crop economics
Crops
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employee compensation
Farm economics
Fiber crops
Field crops
Former slaves
Human resources
Labor
Labor economics
Land law
Land ownership
Landowners
Law
Macroeconomics
Money
Plantations
Slavery
Slaves
Social organization
Sociology
Wages
Workforce
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Summary:More than seventy-five years passed before tobacco was again cultivated as a cash crop in South Carolina. Over these eight decades, South Carolina deepened its commitment to rice, cotton, and slavery and marched in lockstep with world markets to the cadence of the overseer’s lash. In the 1820s, South Carolina’s preeminence in cotton production was supplanted by vast new areas of cultivation in Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas. The state’s competitive edge was further dulled by tariffs that South Carolinians believed discriminated against them. In 1832, the tariff issue brought South Carolina and the national government face-to-face in the first great
ISBN:0820321761
9780820321769