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- Wartime damage, the inability to maintain a labor force without slavery, and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production. The state's chief cash crop, cotton, fell from a high of more than 700,000 bales in 1860 to less than 50,000 in 1865, while harvests of corn and wheat were also meager.
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May 25, 2004 · The Civil War (1861-65) dramatically changed the state’s agricultural labor force by freeing thousands of enslaved laborers, but cotton continued to be the main crop in many parts of Georgia. In 1870 more than 725,000 bales of cotton were produced, largely by Black sharecroppers who were often compelled to farm the lands of former enslavers.
t. e. At the end of the American Civil War, the devastation and disruption in the state of Georgia were dramatic. Wartime damage, the inability to maintain a labor force without slavery, and miserable weather had a disastrous effect on agricultural production.
Sep 29, 2017 · Ecological shifts precipitated by the Civil War shaped the economic and agricultural choices of postwar southerners, and I think greater attention to environmental forces is needed in studies of sharecropping, the closing of the open range in the South, and the expansion of continuous cotton production, particularly as it relates to black ...
The Civil War destroyed much of Georgia’s agriculture and indus-try. This destruction forced changes in the social and economic patterns of the people. Antebellum economy had been based on three main resources: land, labor, and capital (money). In post-bellum Georgia (the period after the war), the typical planter had
Phoenix Rising. Reconstruction. Historians Cliff Kuhn, Marcellus Barksdale and Gene Hatfield describe the chaos and uncertainty resulting from the devastation wrought upon the South during the Civil War. Cities were destroyed, houses and slave quarters were burned, farmland was ruined and one out of every five men who went to war never returned.
Ignoring the pleas of a few reformers, the majority of Georgia's ante-bellum farmers and planters consistently depended on cotton as a source of cash for imported food, feed, and supplies. This attach- ment for cotton continued during the Civil War. But in 1862 war- time necessity brought a new dependence on food crops. As the.
