The owners of plantations, increasingly mechanized, say it is not economically feasible for them to pay any more to the hoe-hands. It wasn’t economically feasible for the Thorntons either.

STARKVILLE — In the interest of not “burying the lead,” let me note that although she never set foot in the state of Mississippi or cast her eyes on the ...

Ghosts along the Mississippi : an essay in the poetic interpretation of Louisiana's plantation architecture / by Clarence John Laughlin ; one hundred photographs by the author Smithsonian Libraries ...