The Black Belt
This essay considers the historical-geographical Black Belt, beginning as a rich, dark-soil, cotton-growing region of Alabama occupied by slaveholders in the 1820s and 30s, and becoming, over time, a more generalized designation for a region or place with a majority black population. By the late twe...
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| Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2004-04-01
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| Series: | Southern Spaces |
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| Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/42673 |