ISBN
9780197564226
Publication Date
2022
Price
$31.00
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Abstract
In Scars on the Land, David Silkenat offers an authoritative and expansive treatment of slavery’s environmental impact on the American south. Based on a wide range of sources – from slave narratives to slaveholders’ reports on nature – and a deep reading of recent scholarship on early environmental reform, the rise of capitalism, and Black resistance to bondage, the book expertly examines the ecological transformation of southern landscapes between the colonial era and the Civil War.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.26.1.04
Recommended Citation
Newman, Rich
(2024)
"Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 26
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Iss.
1
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.26.1.04
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss1/4
