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- catalog abstract ""In this study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop." "McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, the economy, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860-61. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11942280.
- catalog coverage "Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Arkansas Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this study, Donald P. McNeilly examines how moderately wealthy planters and sons of planters immigrated into the virtually empty lands of Arkansas seeking their fortune and to establish themselves as the leaders of a new planter aristocracy west of the Mississippi River. These men, sometimes alone, sometimes with family, and usually with slaves, sought the best land possible, cleared it, planted their crops, and erected crude houses and other buildings. Life was difficult for these would-be leaders of society and their families, and especially for the slaves who toiled to create fields in which they labored to produce a crop."".
- catalog description ""McNeilly argues that by the time of Arkansas's statehood in 1836, planters and large farmers had secured a hold over their frontier home and that between 1840 and the Civil War, planters solidified their hold on politics, the economy, and society in Arkansas. The author takes a topical approach to the subject, with chapters on migration, slavery, non-planter whites, politics, and the secession crisis of 1860-61. McNeilly offers a first-rate analysis of the creation of a white, cotton-based society in Arkansas, shedding light not only on the southern frontier, but also on the established Old South before the Civil War."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 268 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Old South frontier.".
- catalog identifier "1557286191 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Old South frontier.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,".
- catalog relation "Old South frontier.".
- catalog spatial "Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Arkansas Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Arkansas".
- catalog spatial "Arkansas.".
- catalog subject "976.7/03 21".
- catalog subject "Cotton farmers Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Cotton growing Social aspects Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "F411 .M144 2000".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Arkansas.".
- catalog subject "Plantation life Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Slavery Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Social classes Arkansas History 19th century.".
- catalog title "The Old South frontier : cotton plantations and the formation of Arkansas society, 1819-1861 / Donald P. McNeilly.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".