Excerpt from Turner's North Carolina Almanac, Vol. 12: For the Year of Our Lord, 1901, Being the First Year of the Twentieth Century, and Until July 4th the 124th Year of Our American Independence, Specially Calculated for the Latitude and Longitude of North Carolina Form the Horizon and Meridian of Raleigh Tabla - 1, 2, 3, cold and rain; 4, 5, 6, 7, fair; 8, 9, 10, rain; 11, 12, 13, 14, cold 15, 16, 17, fair and mild; 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, fair and frosty; 27, 28, m, 30, fair; 31, rain. 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.

Excerpt from Turner's North Carolina Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord 1881, Vol. 7: Being the First After Bissextile or Leap Year, and Until July 4th, the 105th Year of Our American Independence Between midnight and two ocl'ock Fair, 2 and 4 Cold and showers, 4 and 6 Rain, 6 and 8 Wind and Rain, 8 and 10 10 and 12 12 and 2afternoon 2 and 4 4 and 6 6 and 8 8 and 10 10 and observations. 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.

The transformation of agriculture was one of the most far-reaching developments of the modern era. In analyzing how and why this change took place in the United States, scholars have most often focused on Midwestern family farmers, who experienced the change during the first half of the twentieth century, and southern sharecroppers, swept off the land by forces beyond their control. Departing from the conventional story, this book focuses on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era. It reveals that the transformation was more protracted and more contested than historians have understood it to be. Even though the number of farm owners gradually declined over the course of the century, the desire to farm endured among landless farmers, who became landowners during key moments of opportunity. Moreover, this book departs from other studies by considering all farm owners as a single class, rejecting the widespread approach of segregating black farm owners. The violent and restrictive political culture of Jim Crow regime, far from only affecting black farmers, limited the ability of all farmers to resist changes in agriculture. By the 1970s, the vast reduction in the number of small farm owners had simultaneously destroyed a Southern yeomanry that had been the symbol of American democracy since the time of Thomas Jefferson, rolled back gains in landownership that families achieved during the first half century after the Civil War, and remade the rural South from an agrarian society to a site of global agribusiness.