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Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History
Episode: John H. Cable, "Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi" (UP of Kansas, 2023)
Description: Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farmingāthe āSouthern enclosure movementāāto be a watershed event in the regionās history. In the decades after World War II, this transition pushed innumerable sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and smallholders off the land, redistributing territory and resources upward to a handful of large, mainly white operators. By disproportionately displacing Black farmers, enclosure also slowed the progress of the civil rights movement and limited its impact.Dr. John CableāsĀ Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of MississippiĀ (University Press of Kansas, 202...