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A retrospective of the life of John Brown by Alfred S. Roe
"John Brown: A Retrospect: Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884, authored by Alfred S. Roe, offers a historical perspective on the controversial figure of John Brown. Roe's work presents a retrospective analysis of Brown's actions and their impact on society. Through meticulous research and nuanced exploration, this book contributes to a deeper understanding of Brown's place in history."
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Historians of the American South have come to consider the mechanization and consolidation of cotton farming—the “Southern enclosure movement”—to be a watershed event in the region’s history. In the decades after World War II, this transition pushed innumerable sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and smallholders off the land, redistributing territory and resources upward to a handful of large, mainly white operators. By disproportionately displacing Black farmers, enclosure also slowed the progress of the civil rights movement and limited its impact. John Cable’s Southern Enclosure is among the first studies to explore that process through the interpretive lens of settler colonialism...