Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

by Anthony Wilson

Book Overview

To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604733861
• ISBN13: 9781604733860
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"