American Congo The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta

Name: American Congo The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta
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ISBN: 9780807872307

ISBN-10: 080787230X

ISBN-13: 9780807872307

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

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In 1921, freedom fighter William Pickens described the Mississippi River Valley as the "American Congo." Nan Woodruff argues that the African Congo under Belgium's King Leopold II is an apt metaphor for the Delta of the early twentieth century. Both wore the face of science, progressivism, and benevolence, yet were underwritten by brutal labor conditions, violence, and terror. As in the Congo, she argues, the Delta began with the promise of empire: U.S. capitalists on the lookout for new prospects cleared the vast Delta swamps. With the subsequent emergence of a wealthy planter class, the promise of untold riches, and a largely black labor force, America had its Congo.Woodruff chronicles…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.946

Tonya Clayton is a freelance science writer and editor.Nan Elizabeth Woodruff is professor of modern United States history at Pennsylvania State University.