Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryCo-winner of the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize from the Agricultural History Society Deep Souths tells the stories of three southern regions from Reconstruction to World War II: the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, the eastern Piedmont of Georgia, and the Georgia Sea Islands and Atlantic coast. Though these regions initially shared the histories and populations we associate with the idea of a "Deep South"—all had economies based on slave plantation labor in 1860—their histories diverged sharply during the three generations after Reconstruction. With research gathered from oral histories, census reports, and a wide variety of other sources, Harris traces these regional changes in cumulative stories of individuals across the social spectrum. Deep Souths presents a comparative and ground-level view of history that challenges the idea that the lower South was either uniform or static in the era of segregation. By the end of the New Deal era, changes in these regions had prepared the way for the civil rights movement and the end of segregation.

The region embraced in these studies lies between MD & TX. It comprises the faunas of the various watersheds of this part of the Atlantic & Gulf slopes. Frequent comparison with many of the drainages of the TN & MI valleys has been necessary; much of the material reported from those areas has been re-examined. The inception of this report, however, begins with the collections made by Francis Harper from 1930-1945. The lots of fishes he gathered during his southern trips have been studied. Extensive noteworthy collections were made by Joseph Galloway. These were supplemented by Fowler¿s own collecting trips & the staff of the Acad. of Nat. Sci. of Phila. in NC in 1940, & of the Southern Piedmont-Coastal Plain Aquatic Survey of 1941 & 1942. Illus.

Excerpt from The Piedmont Region, Embracing Georgia, Alabama, Florida and the Carolinas Georgia, Alabama, the Carolinas and East Tennessee constitute the Piedmont region Of North America. Here the lower end Of the Appalachian chain spreads out like a gigantic cornucopia, pouring its wealth upon the plain; here the Atlantic ocean reaches far inward to catch its freight Of nature's rich profusion, -and floats the largest ships nearer to the Western granary than at any other part of the long coast here the gulf approaches with moist south winds that soothe and fructify the earth; and here the primeval forest, wrapping the folds Of the great cornucopia in its evergreen mantle, sweeps from Hatteras to the Mexican border. Descending by easy stages from moun tain to plain, this marvelous region presents in quick suc cession almost the entire vegetable series Of the United States. This is the hospitable home Of the husbandman, the vine dresser, the fruit grower and the florist. Here, too, is nature's ideal seat Of industry, with materials spread out in endless profusion, and the bracing breezes of the hill country pouring out an aerial champagne that stirs men to effort. This incomparable tonic of Ozone gives to the people Of the Piedmont region that transcendent energy by which, as in Atlanta, they rise superior to Obstacles, and build even upon occasional failure the fabric of success. Georgia is the first State Of the South in point Of progress. In the combined products Of agriculture and industry she has outstripped her neighbors. She was the first to recover from the devastation Of the war, and Atlanta, the city which was left in ashes by Sherman's army, bids fair to become the Southern metropolis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.