Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farming - the ‘Southern enclosure movement’ - to be a watershed event in the region’s history. This book is among the first studies to explore that process through the interpretive lens of settler co...

Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farming - the ‘Southern enclosure movement’ - to be a watershed event in the region’s history. This book is among the first studies to explore that process through the interpretive lens of settler colonialism.