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American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta /

This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The forging of the alluvial empire
  • Tensions of empire
  • The killing fields
  • The black people's burden
  • Revolt against mean things
  • A war within a war.