Introduction

This special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies seeks to broaden discussion of the history of rural labor in the post-Civil War US South beyond the confines of the cotton plantation, studies of sharecropping, and black-white race relations. This introduction summarizes the contributions to the special issue, highlighting their most significant points. Collectively, five interrelated issues emerge from the essays: the role of the state in mediating agrarian labor relations, the importance of paramilitary or vigilante violence in the reassertion of the social power wielded over rural laborers, the significance of access to land and other resources of rural self-sufficiency, the ongoing struggle over labor mobility, and the recomposition of agrarian households as units of production

Agrarian reform · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Labor relations · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Relations of production · Sharecropping · Sociology · State (computer science · American History and Culture · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society

• Abolitionist visions

  Open Access•E Melanie Dupuis, Levi Van Sant et al.•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2025

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• Agrarian crossings

  Christy Thornton•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2018

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• Sweetness and power

  Sidney Wilfred Mintz, Tom Perkins•Sweetness and power•1986

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• Deep South

  Allison Davis, Burleigh B Gardner et al.•Deep South•2022

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• Was the Emancipated Slave a Proletarian?

  Alexander C Lichtenstein•Reviews in American History•1998

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• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas.

  Gregg Andrews, Emilio Zamora•The American Historical Review•1994

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• After Slavery

  Matthew Pratt Guterl•Journal of world history•2003

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• New South-New Law

  Mark Tushnet, Harold D Woodman•The American Historical Review•1996

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• A Hard Fight for We

  Lynda Morgan, Leslie A Schwalm•The American Historical Review•1999

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• The Work of Reconstruction

  Harold D Woodman, Julie Saville•The Arkansas Historical Quarterly•1996

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• Shadow of the Plantation

  Charles S Johnson, Joseph S Himes•Journal of Educational Sociology•1934

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• Becoming Free in the Cotton South

  Susan E O'Donovan, Susan E O’Donovan•Becoming Free in the Cotton South•2007

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• Impossible Subjects

  Mae M Ngai•Choice Reviews Online•2004

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• Caste and Class in a Southern Town

  Dwight Sanderson, John Dollard•The American Journal of Psychology•1938

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• Preface to Peasantry; A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties

  D W Brogan, Arthur F Raper•The Economic History Review•1937

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• An American Exodus

  Roy Marvin Robbins, Dorothea Lange et al.•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1940

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• The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas

  Verónica García, Veronica Vasquez Garcia et al.•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1994

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• Plantation Societies, Race Relations, and the South

  Joseph S Himes, Edgar T Thompson•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•1976

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• Creating Perfect Immigrants

  Cindy Hahamovitch•Labor History•2003

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• Nothing But Freedom

  Janet Sharp Hermann, Eric Foner•The Journal of Southern History•1984

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• Freedom

  Clarence L Mohr, Ira Berlin et al.•The Journal of Southern History•1984

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• A Nation under Our Feet

  William P Jones, Steven Hahn•The Journal of Southern History•2005

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• Breaking the Land

  WAYNE FLYNT, Pete Daniel•The Journal of Southern History•1986

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• New South--New Law

  William Cohen, William W Cohen et al.•The Journal of Southern History•1996

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• Tenants of the Almighty

  H C Nixon, Arthur F Raper•The Journal of Southern History•1943

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• Region, Race, and Reconstruction

  Robert F Durden, J Morgan Kousser et al.•The Journal of Southern History•1983

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• The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy

  T Lynn Smith, Charles S Johnson et al.•The Journal of Southern History•1936

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• Slaves No More

  Open Access•Ira Berlin, Robert Francis Engs et al.•Slaves No More•1992

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• Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South

  Jonathan M Wiener, Crandall A Shifflett•Journal of American History•1983

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• The White Scourge

  Tomás Almaguer, Neil Foley•Journal of American History•2000

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• Going among Strangers

  Pete Daniel•Journal of American History•1990

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• Making Freedom Pay

  Steven Hahn, Sharon Holt et al.•Journal of American History•2001

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• Reinventing Free Labor

  Michael Miller Topp, Gunther Peck•Journal of American History•2001

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• When Affirmative Action Was White

  Kevin Yuill, Ira Katznelson•American Journal of Legal History•2006

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• Reconstruction in the Cane Fields

  Robert Tracy Mckenzie•Agricultural History•2002

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• Freedpeople in the Tobacco South

  Peter Wallenstein•Agricultural History•2000

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• Revolt among the Sharecroppers

  Donald Holley, Howard Kester•The Arkansas Historical Quarterly•1998

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• The Terrain of Freedom

  Ira Berlin, Steven Hahn et al.•History Workshop Journal•1986

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• Class and State in Postemancipation Societies

  Steven Hahn•The American Historical Review•1990

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• Black Laborers, the Republican Party, and the Crisis of Reconstruction in Lowcountry South Carolina

  Open Access•Brian Kelly•International Review of Social…•2006

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• Landlord and Tenant on the Cotton Plantation

  T Lynn Smith, T J Woofter•American Sociological Review•1937

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• The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War

  Stephen S Birdsall, Charles S Aiken•Economic Geography•2000

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• Southern Regions of the United States

  Howard W Odum•Geographical Journal•1936

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• Breaking the Land

  George B Tindall, Pete Daniel•Technology and Culture•1987

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• The White Scourge

  Arnoldo De León, Neil Foley•Western Historical Quarterly•1998

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• The Shadow of a Dream

  Carville Earle, Peter A Coclanis•The William and Mary Quarterly•1990

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• Impossible Subjects

  Yen Le Espiritu, Mae M Ngai•Western Historical Quarterly•2005

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• Solving the 'Labour Problem

  Rick Halpern•Journal of Southern African Studies•2004

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• The Roots of Black Nationalism

  Open Access•Alexander C Lichtenstein•American Quarterly•2005

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• Ned Cobb's children

  Alex Lichtenstein•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2006

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