| | The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South | ... |
 | | By the author's account, the cotton picker "emancipated" both southern farmers and fl workers from among the most arduous forms of "stoop" labor, and with it from perpetual misery, inadequate education, low standards of living and the tedium of unchanging expectations. |
 | | A problem with the cotton picker as "indispensable," is that in part it was an intermediary between other large demographic and economic shifts and their results for southern markets and society. |
 | | In part, the cotton picker was important because the demographic and social changes with which it was entangled were so consequential; Holley is aware of this at every step, and in the end provides the balance and completeness of documentation that should assure the longevity of his work as a reference. |
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