Unnamed Planters

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2020-02-19 13:58
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2727
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Unnamed Planters
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Unnamed Planters
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Both "Delta Autumn" and Go Down, Moses briefly trace the process by which several generations of planters, the white men who own the land, turned the wilderness into fields, using the labor of "gangs of slaves" before the Civil War and "hired labor" ever since (270, 323).

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