 | Shadows Over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition, 1830-1945 Subjects: Sunnyside Plantation (Ark.) -- History; Italian Americans -- Arkansas -- Chicot County -- Economic conditions; Peonage -- Arkansas -- Chicot County -- History; Cotton growing -- Arkansas -- Chicot County -- History; Chicot County (Ark.) -- History; Chicot; This remarkable collection of essays addresses social, historical, cultural, and labor issues as they affect a Southern plantation. The heart of the book is an examination of a "great experiment" to import Italian laborers to Sunnyside Plantation. From the crucible of tensions that this experiment produced, the reader obtains a concrete understanding of the implications of U.S. immigration policy, of changing labor relations following Reconstruction, and of a minority culture's introduction into the Delta. Jeannie M. Whayne is professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South . |
