Shadows Over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-1945

by Jeannie M. Whayne

Book Overview

This remarkable collection of essays addresses social, historical, cultural, and labor issues as they affect a Southern plantation. The heart of the book is an examination of a great experiment to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557284172
• ISBN13: 9781557284174
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"