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A Weary Land
In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpse of enslaved life on the South’s western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansas’s enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of space, place, and freedom. Kelly Houston Jones analyzes how the arrival of enslaved men and women as an imprisoned workforce changed the meaning of Arkansas’s acreage, while their labor transformed its landscape. They made the most of their surroundings despite the brutality and increasing labor demands of the “second slavery”—the increasingly harsh phase of American chattel bondage fueled by cotton cultivation in the Old Southwest. Jones contends that enslaved Arkansans were able to repurpose their experiences with agricultural labor, rural life, and the natural world to craft a sense of freedom rooted in the ability to own land, the power to control their own movement, and the right to use the landscape as they saw fit.
Arkansas Biography
"The information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars."--BOOK JACKET.
Manuscript Resources for Women's Studies
"These manuscript collections contain new possibilities for writing Arkansas history with a focus on issues basic to women's lives: clubs, voluntarism; families; churches; schools; and children. ... Within these collections are other sources that document suffrage, civil rights, and childbirth practices. There is extensive material on businesses and farms as well as music and art. There are collections of some of the state's extraordianary women...as well as reminiscences of ordinary women recounting commonplace experiences." -- Foreword.
Cossitt Family
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The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
"List of charter members," v. 1, p. 8.
