RONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (Greenwood, 1982), Famine in Peasant Societies (Greenwood, 1986), and Famine in East Africa (Greenwood, 1989).

• Subsistence and Commercial Labor The Slave Plantation Cultivation Practices The First Emancipation The Labor Question Sharecrop Tenure in Omsration White Peasants Populism Black Caste System Peasants and Farmers New Deal Agricultural Policies Urban Migration Bibliography Index

RONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (Greenwood, 1982), Famine in Peasant Societies (Greenwood, 1986), and Famine in East Africa (Greenwood, 1989).

• Subsistence and Commercial Labor The Slave Plantation Cultivation Practices The First Emancipation The Labor Question Sharecrop Tenure in Omsration White Peasants Populism Black Caste System Peasants and Farmers New Deal Agricultural Policies Urban Migration Bibliography Index

RONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include The Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1784-1855 (Greenwood, 1982), Famine in Peasant Societies (Greenwood, 1986), and Famine in East Africa (Greenwood, 1989).

• Subsistence and Commercial Labor The Slave Plantation Cultivation Practices The First Emancipation The Labor Question Sharecrop Tenure in Omsration White Peasants Populism Black Caste System Peasants and Farmers New Deal Agricultural Policies Urban Migration Bibliography Index