Unfortunately, Owsley is still in copyright. If you want the full version of his thesis, check out his Plain Folk of the Old South, which was originally given as a Walter L. Fleming Lecture series at LSU. shorturl.at/tQeHd
@@georgebagby9058 thank you. I have a couple old very technical and old amalgams of the history of my local very small town as my family is of these people. If you'd like to look it over I may send it your way.
3:20 - this sounds eerily familiar to the mythos that farming and produce jobs can't be filled by natural citizens because of a disdain for this kind of manual labor, and as such migrant labor must be imported to fill these kinds of positions. Sounds alot like a rich man's game to debase the working ethic of regular people and supplant the natural labor force for cheaper alternatives.
Bingo. They have to continually import people who have nothing so they can pay them next to nothing. 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican Americans won’t work for nothing either. They get their diplomas and degrees and move on. Cesar Chavez spoke about this phenomenon. Now there is a special class of agricultural immigration cards that allow people to come here legally but only temporarily. It de facto makes them slaves to their sponsoring overseer farm and even more so if they overstay the card.
Very interesting. Thanks!
26:14 Being someone from Huntsville, I was throughly surprised when it was mentioned.
Thank you, Mr. Bagby.
An excellent reading sir I learned a lot - especially being up here in the North you can imagine what they tell us in school about such things.
Love it. I'm gonna find this book. I'm guessing you may be selling one. Appreciate what you do
Unfortunately, Owsley is still in copyright. If you want the full version of his thesis, check out his Plain Folk of the Old South, which was originally given as a Walter L. Fleming Lecture series at LSU. shorturl.at/tQeHd
I got this essay from The Selected Essays of F. L. Owlsey.
@@georgebagby9058 thank you. I have a couple old very technical and old amalgams of the history of my local very small town as my family is of these people. If you'd like to look it over I may send it your way.
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@@georgebagby9058 thank you , sir. I shall.
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"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons."
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As someone said, there were good people on both sides.
On both sides of what? He was focused on plain white folks who mostly didn’t own slaves.
Hey, I was wondering, what do you think about J.W Cash?
3:20 - this sounds eerily familiar to the mythos that farming and produce jobs can't be filled by natural citizens because of a disdain for this kind of manual labor, and as such migrant labor must be imported to fill these kinds of positions.
Sounds alot like a rich man's game to debase the working ethic of regular people and supplant the natural labor force for cheaper alternatives.
Bingo. They have to continually import people who have nothing so they can pay them next to nothing. 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican Americans won’t work for nothing either. They get their diplomas and degrees and move on. Cesar Chavez spoke about this phenomenon. Now there is a special class of agricultural immigration cards that allow people to come here legally but only temporarily. It de facto makes them slaves to their sponsoring overseer farm and even more so if they overstay the card.
Exactly this. But, with the added data that land productivity is better with "corporate" agriculture. Is it better? No. But more efficient? Yes.
Frank L. Owsley was a Southern aristocrat and white supremacist, he destined both poor whites and blacks.