Comments on: The Relationship Between Today’s Political Map, the Economy, and Geological Time

By: Beyond the Pale

Beyond the Pale — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:43:21 +0000

[...] check out Lisa’s post on geology, the economy, and the concentration of slavery in the [...]

By: Sunday Links « The Oyster’s Garter

Sunday Links « The Oyster’s Garter — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:21:19 +0000

[...] a Blog connects geology, slavery, and recent political history – check out the connection between the ancient Bay [...]

By: JenniferRuth

JenniferRuth — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:48:32 +0000

That is really interesting. Especially for someone from the UK.

By: Interrobang

Interrobang — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:36:51 +0000

after slavery was ended, many of the freed slaves stayed

I think you meant to say, “after slavery was ended, many of the freed slaves were forced to stay.” “Vagrancy” laws, the “Black Laws” in Mississippi and other places, convict leasing schemes (and the programmes of mass arrest that fed them), and other tactics by white landowners made sure that there was an ample supply of exploitable and essentially movement-restricted black labour in that area. David M. Oshinski covers this in detail in Worse Than Slavery.

By: Chuk

Chuk — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:01:31 +0000

So freak’n cool! I was just about to send it to all of my friends, before I remembered that most of my friends are nowhere near as nerdy as me.

I always say, that if I hadn’t become a sociologist, I would have become a geographer…or a dharma bum…

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:46:14 +0000

By: Penny

Penny — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:25:23 +0000

Before Jeff Fecke’s post at Alas, I saw this at Strange Maps, and the post there now has a comments thread of 149 messages (as I type this):
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/