IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT HOUSE: A History of the Plantation in America

Across 400 years of American history, Rood reveals that the plantation did not die after the Civil War. It metastasized. From the advent of sharecropping in the late 19th century to the rise of cotton in mid-20th-century California to today's chicken processing plants, the plantation has cast a long shadow over American life. Illus.