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In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South. Fueling the rapid growth of lowcountry fertilizer companies, phosphate mining provided elite plantation owners a way to stem losses from emancipation. At the same time, mining created an autonomous alternative to sharecropping, enabling freed people to extract housing and labor concessions. Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold develops an overarching view of what can be considered one of many key factors in the birth of southern industry. This top-down, bottom-up history (business, labor, social, and economic) analyzes an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.

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A very well-researched, contextual case study that makes a significant contribution to the story of industrialization in the New South. - Choice A valued addition to the history of the low-country and the post-slavery South more generally. - EH.net An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina low country. - Business History Review

"A very well-researched, contextual case study that makes a significant contribution to the story of industrialization in the New South."""" - Choice """"A valued addition to the history of the low-country and the post-slavery South more generally."""" - EH.net """"An insightful analysis of the rise of the phosphate and fertilizer industries in the South Carolina low country."""" - Business History Review"

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Shepherd W. McKinley, a senior lecturer in American history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the coauthor of North Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land.

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