A reactionary book from a beloved guru of the land.
), it is the sanctity and obligation to work with one’s own hands, no matter how lowly the task. Perhaps the most brilliant part ofis when Berry writes that one of the longest-lasting legacies of slavery has been the degradation of manual labor. For what was slavery, other than a way for the wealthy to avoid work by forcing another person to the fields and then stealing the fruits of their sweat? Like owning a factory, owning a person was a way to live in sloth.
But between his introduction and concluding two chapters, there’s a revisionist history of slavery and its legacy that is largely unburdened by historical fact, laced with resentment about verbal slights flung at both the South and the rural U.S., and utterly incurious as to why, for instance, masses of Americans might find statues of Confederate generals objectionable and so be inspired to pull them down .
, the enslaved increased their productivity by 361 percent between 1811 and 1860, not because of innovative machinery but “innovations in violence,” the “systematized torture” that caused mortality rates to skyrocket far above what was typical for white Americans.Neither was the South a region that prized a sense of place—cotton and tobacco were hard on the land, but it was cheaper to work the soil to exhaustion and then move on.
columnist Paul Krugman, who has always taken great delight in denigrating anyone from the country as ignorant, racist, and expendable,and concluded that since rural America receives far more federal aid than it pays, all of us who live among woods and farm fields are lucky that our urban benefactors subsidize our lives at all.
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