| Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South Contributor(s): Mathew, William M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820341673 ISBN-13: 9780820341675 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 302 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - Virginia - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. His findings became the basis for the most progressive and sophisticated reform proposals to be formulated in the slaveholding South. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mathew, William M.: - WILLIAM M. MATHEW is a senior fellow in history at the University of East Anglia. He is also the author of Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform (Georgia). His other books include The House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly. |