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Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South

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Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South - Mathew, William M
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In 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. His findings became the basis for the most progressive and sophisticated reform proposals to be formulated in the slaveholding South. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South.

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Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South 2012, University of Georgia Press, Athens

ISBN-13: 9780820341675

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