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Historic Settlement in Upper Tombigbee by Jonathan Reeves is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes a study of historic settlement in the Upper Tombigbee Valley region traversed by the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. It discusses how the area prospered from cotton cultivation and slave labor prior to the Civil War. After the war, cotton culture resumed but with greatly reduced output and a shift to tenant farming. The region became dependent on outside food sources and did not regain prosperity. Since 1940, there has been extensive population loss but the economic basis has improved

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Jonathan Reeves

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