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A Weary Land: Slavery On The Ground In Arkansas (Early American Places Ser.),Used
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In the first booklength study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the Souths 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, Arkansass 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 Arkansass acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the second slaverythe 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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