AFRICAN AMERICANS, MULES, AND THE SOUTHERN MINDSCAPE, 1850-1950. |
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Ellenberg, G.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Agricultural History 1998
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72(2)p.381-398
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African American
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Mules and African Americans have been linked both symbolically and in real terms in the American South. The use of mules in Southern agriculture, especially cotton production, grewrapidly from the 1850 s to a peak about 1925, then declined with mechanization. Blacks associated mules both with slavery and with the promise of economic independence afteremancipation. They often identified the mule s mistreatment with their own. Whites associated blacks with mules, often in racist and sentimental ways. After 1950 the presence of both mules andblacks declined in Southern agriculture.
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