Ebook: Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists : Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914
Author: Kyle G. Wilkison
- Tags: Rural poor -- Texas -- Hunt County., Rural poor -- Texas -- Hunt County -- Social conditions -- 19th century., Rural poor -- Texas -- Hunt County -- Social conditions -- 20th century., Group identity -- Texas -- Case studies., Land tenure -- Texas., Farm tenancy -- Economic aspects -- Texas., Religion and culture -- Texas.
- Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
- City: College Station, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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As the nineteenth century ended in Hunt County, Texas, a way of life was dying. The tightly knit, fiercely independent society of the yeomen farmers—”plain folk,” as historians have often dubbed them—was being swallowed up by the rising tide of a rapidly changing, cotton-based economy. A social network based on family, religion, and community was falling prey to crippling debt and resulting loss of land ownership. For many of the rural people of Hunt County and similar places, it seemed like the end of the world. In Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists historian Kyle G. Wilkison analyzes the patterns of plain-folk life and the changes that occurred during the critical four decades spanning the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Political protest evolved in the wake of the devastating losses experienced by the poor rural majority, and Wilkison carefully explores the interplay of religion and politics as Greenbackers, Populists, and Socialists vied for the support of the dispossessed tenant farmers and sharecroppers. With its richly drawn contextualization and analysis of the causes and effects of the epochal shifts in plain-folk society, Kyle G. Wilkison’s Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists will reward students and scholars in economic, regional, and agricultural history.
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