Negro Migration; Changes in Rural Organization and Population of the Cotton Belt

In this book the author tries to find out what the main causes of Negro Migration were and how they led to changes in rural organization and population of the Cotton Belt. He uses examples like slavery, cotton growing and its practices, black migration patterns, cash cropping, small farms, labor-intensive production systems, sharecropping, tenant farming (tenant system), mechanization of agriculture. This book comes with extensive footnotes that provide context for key historical events.The author uses census data from 1880 to provide a snapshot of black rural life in Georgia in the late nineteenth century.