Plantation System in Southern Life

Duration: 0:11:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Coronet Instructional Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Contrasts Southern life before and after slavery was abolished and analyzes the cause and significance of the plantation system. Pictures the one-crop economy, poor transportation, cheap slave labor, and self-sufficiency of the plantation unit., Pictures what life was like on a Southern plantation. Provides information on the organization of the plantation, the one-crop economy and the effect of the Civil War. Tells how these factors affect life in the South today.

Complete Record: , Contrasts Southern life before and after slavery was abolished and analyzes the cause and significance of the plantation system. Pictures the one-crop economy, poor transportation, cheap slave labor, and self-sufficiency of the plantation unit., Pictures what life was like on a Southern plantation. Provides information on the organization of the plantation, the one-crop economy and the effect of the Civil War. Tells how these factors affect life in the South today.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.