Southern Agriculture & Economy, 1816-1860

Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South. By David Allmendinger, Jr.

Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas. By Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe.

An Anxious Pursuit: Agricultural Innovation and Modernity in the Lower South, 1730-1815. By Joyce E. Chaplin.

Hog Meat and Hoecake: Food Supply in the Old South, 1840-1860.  By Sam Bowers Hilliard.

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky.  By James F. Hopkins. 

Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina.  By John C. Inscoe.

Planters and Plain Folk:  Agriculture in Antebellum Texas.  Richard G.Lowe and Randolph B. Campbell.

Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform. By William M. Mathew.

The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860. By John H. Moore.

The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860. By Joseph Clarke Robert.

Sugar Cane: The Cane Sugar Industry in the South, 1753-1950. By J. Carlyle Sitterson.

King Cotton & His Retainers: Financing & Marketing the Cotton Crop of the South, 1800-1925. By Harold D. Woodman.

The Political Economy of the Cotton South:  Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. By Gavin Wright.

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