John Solomon Otto
Biographic Data
| ID | 149248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Solomon Otto |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Solomon |
| FAMILY NAME | Otto |
| SIGNATURE | OTTO J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930
Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880
Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Used in Text Citations The Southern Frontiers and Southern Agriculture (1607-1860) The Civil War and Southern Agriculture (1860-1865) Political Reconstruction and Southern Agriculture (1865-1870) Political Redemption and Southern Agriculture (1870-1880) Southern Agriculture and the Southern Frontiers (1860-1880) References Index
Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860-1880
Journal Article Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860–1880. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1994. xii, 171 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-26714-6.) Get access Peter A. Coclanis Peter A. Coclanis University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Journal Article The Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 177 pp. $37.95.) Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079213 Published: 01 …
Forest Fallowing among the Appalachian Mountain Folk
Cracker
Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794-1860
The Migration of the Southern Plain Folk
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT FARMERS AND LIVESTOCK HERDERS-NOT wealthy, slaveholding planters -led the westward movement across the southern frontier, settling the Old Southwest, the lower portions of the Old Northwest, and much of the New Southwest during the antebellum period.1 These farmers and herders, who have been dubbed the by historian Frank L. Owsley, were the true pioneers of the southern frontier. Among the plain folk Owsley included the slav…
The Historical and Archaeological Significance of Plantation Excavation
The Overseers' Living Conditions
The Slaves' Living Conditions
The Planters' Living Conditions
Cannon's Point Plantation and Status Patterning in the Archaeological Record
Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794–1860
Traditional Cattle-Herding Practices in Southern Florida
Two very emaciated . . . ponies pattered down the street, bearing wild-looking individuals, whose hanging hair and drooping hats and generally bedraggled appearance would remind you at once of the Spanish-moss, which hangs so quietly and helplessly to the limbs of the oaks out in the swamps. There was none of the bilious fierceness and rearing plunge which I had associated with my friends out West .... They had on about four dollars worth of clot…
Black Folks and Poor Buckras
In the historiography of the antebellum South, researchers have traditionally. used narrative sources, exhaustively explored. These sources are usually written by members of the upper class or by people striving for upper-class status. Not surprisingly, such documentation reflects the perspective of its writers. Their impressions of the South's inarticulate masses are thus suspect, and a correctively their views is not available in traditional wr…
The Decline of Forest Farming in Southern Appalachia
The Banks Family of Yell County, Arkansas
John Solomon Otto, Ben Wayne Banks, The Banks Family of Yell County, Arkansas: A "Plain Folk" Family of the Highlands South, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 146-167
Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Arkansas Highlands
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, American folklorists have begun to study such material aspects of folklife as foodways, artifacts, architecture, and even settlement patterns. Far less attention has been given to traditional agriculture, the subsistence base of agrarian folk societies.' This has been true even for studies of southern folklife, though the South has always been a rural, agricultural society.2 In 1860, for example, at least 80% of the s…
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
Slavery in the Mountains
Hard Times Blues (1929–40)
Faced with competition from radio in the early 1920s, phonograph recording companies began searching for new buyers. They found an untapped market in black Americans. Advertising their releases as race the companies began issuing recordings by gospel singers, jazzmen, and blues performers. The earliest blues releases featured women vocalists accompanied by jazz bands and pianos. Generally, they sang vaudeville blues which were composed by profess…
The Use of Race and Hillbilly Recordings as Sources for Historical Research
Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Arkansas Highlands
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, American folklorists have begun to study such material aspects of folklife as foodways, artifacts, architecture, and even settlement patterns. Far less attention has been given to traditional agriculture, the subsistence base of agrarian folk societies.' This has been true even for studies of southern folklife, though the South has always been a rural, agricultural society.2 In 1860, for example, at least 80% of the s…
The Decline of Forest Farming in Southern Appalachia
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Journal Article The Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 177 pp. $37.95.) Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079213 Published: 01 …
The Migration of the Southern Plain Folk
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT FARMERS AND LIVESTOCK HERDERS-NOT wealthy, slaveholding planters -led the westward movement across the southern frontier, settling the Old Southwest, the lower portions of the Old Northwest, and much of the New Southwest during the antebellum period.1 These farmers and herders, who have been dubbed the by historian Frank L. Owsley, were the true pioneers of the southern frontier. Among the plain folk Owsley included the slav…
Cracker
The Use of Race and Hillbilly Recordings as Sources for Historical Research
Slavery in the Mountains
Hard Times Blues (1929–40)
Faced with competition from radio in the early 1920s, phonograph recording companies began searching for new buyers. They found an untapped market in black Americans. Advertising their releases as race the companies began issuing recordings by gospel singers, jazzmen, and blues performers. The earliest blues releases featured women vocalists accompanied by jazz bands and pianos. Generally, they sang vaudeville blues which were composed by profess…
Traditional Agricultural Practices in the Arkansas Highlands
DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES, American folklorists have begun to study such material aspects of folklife as foodways, artifacts, architecture, and even settlement patterns. Far less attention has been given to traditional agriculture, the subsistence base of agrarian folk societies.' This has been true even for studies of southern folklife, though the South has always been a rural, agricultural society.2 In 1860, for example, at least 80% of the s…
Plantation Slavery in Barbados
The Banks Family of Yell County, Arkansas
John Solomon Otto, Ben Wayne Banks, The Banks Family of Yell County, Arkansas: A "Plain Folk" Family of the Highlands South, The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer, 1982), pp. 146-167
Black Folks and Poor Buckras
In the historiography of the antebellum South, researchers have traditionally. used narrative sources, exhaustively explored. These sources are usually written by members of the upper class or by people striving for upper-class status. Not surprisingly, such documentation reflects the perspective of its writers. Their impressions of the South's inarticulate masses are thus suspect, and a correctively their views is not available in traditional wr…
The Decline of Forest Farming in Southern Appalachia
The Historical and Archaeological Significance of Plantation Excavation
The Overseers' Living Conditions
The Slaves' Living Conditions
The Planters' Living Conditions
Cannon's Point Plantation and Status Patterning in the Archaeological Record
Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794–1860
Traditional Cattle-Herding Practices in Southern Florida
Two very emaciated . . . ponies pattered down the street, bearing wild-looking individuals, whose hanging hair and drooping hats and generally bedraggled appearance would remind you at once of the Spanish-moss, which hangs so quietly and helplessly to the limbs of the oaks out in the swamps. There was none of the bilious fierceness and rearing plunge which I had associated with my friends out West .... They had on about four dollars worth of clot…
Cannon's Point Plantation, 1794-1860
The Migration of the Southern Plain Folk
IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT FARMERS AND LIVESTOCK HERDERS-NOT wealthy, slaveholding planters -led the westward movement across the southern frontier, settling the Old Southwest, the lower portions of the Old Northwest, and much of the New Southwest during the antebellum period.1 These farmers and herders, who have been dubbed the by historian Frank L. Owsley, were the true pioneers of the southern frontier. Among the plain folk Owsley included the slav…
Cracker
Forest Fallowing among the Appalachian Mountain Folk
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Journal Article The Southern Frontiers, 1607–1860: The Agricultural Evolution of the Colonial and Antebellum South. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 177 pp. $37.95.) Get access Joyce E. Chaplin Joyce E. Chaplin Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 642, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079213 Published: 01 …
The Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860
Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880
Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Used in Text Citations The Southern Frontiers and Southern Agriculture (1607-1860) The Civil War and Southern Agriculture (1860-1865) Political Reconstruction and Southern Agriculture (1865-1870) Political Redemption and Southern Agriculture (1870-1880) Southern Agriculture and the Southern Frontiers (1860-1880) References Index
Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860-1880
Journal Article Southern Agriculture during the Civil War Era, 1860–1880. By John Solomon Otto. (Westport: Greenwood, 1994. xii, 171 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-313-26714-6.) Get access Peter A. Coclanis Peter A. Coclanis University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 743–744, https://doi.org/10.2307/20…
The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930
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