Synopses & Reviews
Review
"Woodman, among the most distinguished historians of the South, delivered die Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University in 1990. His chosen topic was the legal foundations of credit and labor relations in Southern agriculture after the Civil War. The centrality of sharecropping and crop liens to the post-bellum South is well recognized; Wood-man shows us how these systems evolved from the ruins of slavery." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)