{"product_id":"washington-county-mississippi-russell-s-hall-9780738506555","title":"Washington County, Mississippi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington County, located on the Mississippi River in the heart of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the culture that cotton built.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFounded by hearty pioneers willing to risk even their lives for the unexcelled wealth that the white gold of cotton promised, the county was literally carved out of a swampy, cane-covered wilderness where the brave were as likely to reap an early grave as elaborate grandeur. This collection of more than two hundred photographs from the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth depicts the unique and pervasive dichotomies that the struggle to weave the Cotton Kingdom produced, especially the twin threads of prosperity and poverty. Here men struck it rich in an unprecedented short time, but here they lost it just as quickly. While high cotton bought white men opulent homes and the leisure to produce literary classics, simultaneously it bought the black man little more than a shotgun shack and the pain that birthed the blues. Witness the challenges presented to the mule by the machine and to the isolation of the county's way of life by international war and the infusion of industry. Despite the divisions, this collection also illustrates the common, commendable effort by the citizens of one American county in the South to clear their land, cultivate their fields, build their homes, pave their streets, construct their highways, lay their railroads, and protect it all from flood, fever, and fire with an unfaltering faith in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Russell S. Hall, Princella W. Nowell, Stacy Childress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0738506559\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780738506555\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing (SC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Russell S. Hall","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45478355697919,"sku":"9780738506555","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_53acf742-a38b-4f84-a856-25467f6db044.jpg?v=1715934989","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/washington-county-mississippi-russell-s-hall-9780738506555","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}