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"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what... read more
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Early travelers' accounts did not exaggerate the difficulties inherent in clearing and settling such a swampy wilderness, but those who wrote off the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta's long-term prospects for development failed to appreciate the importance that the remarkable fertility of tis continually replenished alluvial soil would assume in a regional, national, and international economy grown ravenous for cotton.
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- James C. Cobb (Author)
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