Article ID: CBB001553132

Bondswomen's Work on the Cotton Frontier: Wagram Plantation, Arkansas (2015)

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Jones, Kelly Houston (Author)


Agricultural History
Volume: 89, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 388-401


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Revisiting Rural Women's History
Language: English

This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from those faced on the classic cotton plantation. This was most obvious in the role of women as prime workers of the crop, but includes gender politics that omitted the white planter family, and the meaning of space.

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Authors & Contributors
Joanna W. C. Lee
Anja Timmermann
Marsh, Ben
Follett, Richard J.
Jensen, Joan M.
Smith, Hayden R.
Concepts
Agriculture
Plantations
Colonialism
Sugar and sugar industry
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Cotton and cotton industry
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
United States
India
Atlantic world
Southern states (U.S.)
Caribbean
Great Britain
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