Branches without Roots

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Branches without Roots is written by Gerald David Jaynes and published by OUP USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195055756 (ISBN 10) and 9780195055757 (ISBN 13).

This major new study draws on thousands of previously untapped sources and statistics to reconstruct the socioeconomic history of the antebellum plantation and the birth of the free black worker. Jaynes thoroughly reexamines the symbiotic nature of the sharecropping system for both planters and workers and analyzes the social and economic effects of sharecropping on the larger social structure.