Punished With Poverty by James Kennedy 2020 Hardback 9780997939316

Like New Condition. 268 pages, thru Shotwell Publishing, 6.3 x 9.25 x .8 inches, ISBN 10: 0997939311
Synopsis: "The Suffering South - Prosperity to Poverty and the Continuing Struggle. From the authors of The South Was Right! comes this unflinching chronicle of the South's deliberate economic ruin post-Civil War, transforming a once-prosperous region into America's persistent underbelly. Drawing on Reconstruction-era policies, tariff manipulations, and federal exploitation, it exposes how sharecropping ensnared both Black and white Southerners in debt peonage, while Northern industrialists reaped windfalls. Meticulous data, forgotten testimonies, and policy dissections reveal the human toll—devastated farms, ghost towns, generational trauma—and argue for reclaiming Southern sovereignty to end the cycle of engineered scarcity." Genre: History/Southern 53-11-12-25-40