Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina (New Perspectives on the History of the South) - Softcover

Shepherd W. McKinley (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813064619 ISBN 13: 9780813064611

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2017

Synopsis

In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South.

Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions.

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold develops an overarching view of what can be considered one of many key factors in the birth of southern industry. This top-down, bottom-up history (business, labor, social, and economic) analyzes an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.

About this title

About the Author

Shepherd W. McKinley, a senior lecturer in American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the coauthor of North Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813064619
• ISBN 13: 9780813064611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246