Scars on the Land by David Silkenat

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/215038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scars on the Land Author: David Silkenat Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins Release date: 10-18-22 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings Genres: Colonial Period Publisher's Summary: Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape. Over two centuries, from the establishment of slavery in the Chesapeake to the Civil War, one simple calculation had profound consequences: Rather than measuring productivity based on outputs per acre, Southern planters sought to maximize how much labor they could extract from their enslaved workforce.