Re: Sharecropping: question to Melvin

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In a message dated 7/31/03 7:24:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time, paul_a@xxxxxxx writes:

> Melvin P. writes:
>
> > Any impartial investigation of the plantation belt of the South after the Civil Wall will reveal who owned what. Wall Street imperialism owned the vast majority of the land, possessed the capital and political will...
> > Melvin P. 




> Could you give some more details on the ownership issue?  Thanks.
> Paul 





Comer Van Woodson, "Origins of the New South, 1877-1913, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1951, pp 179, 196.

I believe it was Dr. Dubois - perhaps in Black Reconstruction, that commented that the political South controlled the country and Wall Street controlled the South. As opposed to political representatives of industrial capital whose voice was being articulated by way of the National Association of Manufacturers. 

No historian disputes that Yankee finance capital - imperialism or Wall Street, took possession of the plantation system in the aftermath of the Civil War. 


Melvin P.