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Brown, William Garrott, 1868-1913
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Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945.
Southern States -- Race relations.
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The South at work : observations from 1904 [electronic resource].
by
Brown, William Garrott, 1868-1913
Subjects
Electronic books.
Southern
States
--
History
--
1865-1951.
Southern
States
--
Social
conditions
--
1865-1945
.
Southern
States
--
Race relations.
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[United
States
] : University of South Carolina Press, 2014.
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9781611173765 (electronic bk.)
1611173760 (electronic bk.)
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In 1904, William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and
social
conditions
. Using the pen name "Stanton," Brown published twenty epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these newspaper articles, providing a valuable snapshot of the South as it was simultaneously emerging from post-Civil War economic depression and imposing on African Americans the panoply of Jim Crow laws and customs that sought to exclude them from all but the lowest rungs of
southern
society. A Harvard-educated historian and journalist originally from Alabama, Brown had been commissioned by the Evening Transcript to visit a wide range of locations and to chronicle the region with a greater depth than that of typical travelers' accounts. Some articles featured familiar topics such as a tobacco warehouse in Durham, North Carolina; a textile mill in Columbia, South Carolina; and the vast steel mills at Birmingham. However, Brown also covered atypical enterprises such as citrus farming in Florida, the King Ranch in Texas, and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. To add perspective, he talked to businessmen and politicians, as well as everyday workers. In addition to describing the importance of diversifying the South's agricultural economy beyond cotton, Brown addressed race relations and the role of politicians such as James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, the growth of African American communities such as Hayti in Durham, and the role universities played in changing the intellectual climate of the South. The editor, Bruce E. Baker, has written an introduction and provided thorough annotations for each of Brown's letters. Baker demonstrates the value of the collection as it touches on racism, moderate progressivism, and accommodation with the political status quo in the South. Baker and Brown's combined work makes The South at Work one of the most detailed and interesting portraits of the region at the beginning of the twentieth century. Publication in book form makes The South at Work conveniently available to students and scholars of modern
southern
and American history.
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