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Unbroken Legacy Of Plantation Exploitation - DANIEL-ROOD CONTINUED
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1925
Unbroken Legacy Of Plantation Exploitation
Daniel Rood, Part Two: Rood explores the 19th-century domestic slave trade, Civil War destruction, and the post-emancipation survival of plantation structures. He details how millions of enslaved people were forcibly relocated to the Deep South for short-term agricultural profits. Despite wartime destruction and temporary Reconstruction land reforms, plantation dynamics adapted through sharecropping, international sugar operations, and California agribusiness. The narrative concludes by examining unacknowledged slave burial grounds at the University of Georgia, underscoring history's enduring shadow. (2)
Unbroken Legacy Of Plantation Exploitation
Daniel Rood, Part Two: Rood explores the 19th-century domestic slave trade, Civil War destruction, and the post-emancipation survival of plantation structures. He details how millions of enslaved people were forcibly relocated to the Deep South for short-term agricultural profits. Despite wartime destruction and temporary Reconstruction land reforms, plantation dynamics adapted through sharecropping, international sugar operations, and California agribusiness. The narrative concludes by examining unacknowledged slave burial grounds at the University of Georgia, underscoring history's enduring shadow. (2)