How Long to Read Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia

How Long Does it Take to Read Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 13 minutes to read Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia by Frederick A. Bode

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Description

Historians of the nineteenth-century rural South have long distinguished the antebellum agricultural system of plantations and gang-style slave labor from the family tenancy system that is thought to have developed only after the Civil War. In Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia, however, Frederick Bode and Donald Ginter demonstrate a far greater consistency in economic traditions than many historians have recognized. Through a detailed critical interpretation of the 1860 federal census, Bode and Ginter show that extensive family tenancy, and probably sharecropping, were not the creations of Emancipation and Reconstruction, but instead were widely present before the upheaval of the Civil War. Bode and Ginter's analysis of the 1860 census reveals a complex rural economy of plantation owners, slaves, and yeoman and tenant farmers. Though census agents lacked a category for reporting tenant farmers and therefore often devised their own methods for recording land tenure, Bode and Ginter examine the agricultural and population schedules to reveal coherent regional patterns of tenancy. In older areas of greater cotton cultivation, tenant farmers were relatively scarce; in areas of recently cleared land within the cotton belt, and even more strikingly in the upcountry, tenant farming was pervasive. Bode and Ginter's findings not only demonstrate the presence of antebellum tenant farmers and sharecroppers but also dispel the current conception of yeoman farmers reduced to tenancy on their return from the battlefields of the Civil War. They show, finally, how new regional patterns of tenancy followed the demise of slavery. Probing the shifting relations between races and social classes in the nineteenth-century rural South, Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia revises the dominant scholarly view of the region's social and economic history by carefully measuring the true extent of the changes brought by the Civil War.

How long is Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia?

Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia by Frederick A. Bode is 306 pages long, and a total of 78,336 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 8 minutes to read Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia aloud.

What Reading Level is Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia?

Farm Tenancy and the Census in Antebellum Georgia is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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