Scars on the Land
Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South
English | ASIN: B0BJ141BQP | 2022 | 8 hours and 40 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 239 MB
Author: David Silkenat
Narrator: Lyle Blaker
Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people’s lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape. Over two centuries, from the establishment of slavery in the Chesapeake to the Civil War, one simple calculation had profound consequences: Rather than measuring productivity based on outputs per acre, Southern planters sought to maximize how much labor they could extract from their enslaved workforce. They saw the landscape as disposable, relocating to more fertile prospects once they had leached the soils and cut down the forests.
