{"product_id":"edmund-ruffin-and-the-crisis-of-slavery-in-the-old-south-the-failure-of-agricultural-reform-paperback","title":"Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam M. Mathew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1818, Edmund Ruffin, then a young Virginia planter, began conducting chemical and rotational experiments on his Coggin's Point plantation on the James River. His findings became the basis for the most progressive and sophisticated reform proposals to be formulated in the slaveholding South. Tracing Ruffin's passionate advocacy of both agricultural reform and slavery, William M. Mathew pinpoints in this book many of the contradictions that underlay the economic and social structures of the antebellum South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWILLIAM M. MATHEW is a senior fellow in history at the University of East Anglia. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eEdmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). His other books include \u003ci\u003eThe House of Gibbs and the Peruvian Guano Monopoly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468522766589,"sku":"9780820341675","price":66.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/MU11blZRSUplcGgzUFRMSVU4ZDhwdz09.webp?v=1777290344","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/edmund-ruffin-and-the-crisis-of-slavery-in-the-old-south-the-failure-of-agricultural-reform-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}