This book examines the agriculture of the South's original staple crop in the Old Bright Belt--a diverse region named after the unique bright, or flue-cured, tobacco variety it spawned.
EvanP. Bennett isassociate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the authorof Tampa Bay: The Story of an Estuary and Its People and coeditor of BeyondForty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families sinceReconstruction.
