THE PLANTATION SOUTH

Duration: 16 min

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Format: 16mm

Color: color

Sound: Sound

Description: Traces the history of the plantation system in the United States from its earliest beginnings in Virginia to its spread and firm establishment in the Deep South of the antebellum period. Stresses the significance of the plantation as an agricultural and social unit and portrays events which foreshadowed the ultimate failure of the plantation system

Complete Record: Source: EBF Interest level: jh-sh-c Guide: Guide Price: b&w $90, rent $3.50; color $180, rent $5.50 Format: sd Catalog numbers: LC card Fl A 60-556

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)