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A Weary Land - Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (Paperback)
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A Weary Land - Slavery on the Ground in Arkansas (Paperback)
Series: Early American Places Series
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In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than
sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the
South's western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use
and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black
Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended
livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas's enslaved farmers
connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space,
place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of
enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the
meaning of Arkansas's acreage, while their labor transformed its
landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the
brutality and increasing labor demands of the "second slavery"-the
increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by
cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that
enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with
agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a
sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to
control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as
they saw fit.
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