Georgia Odyssey

Readers Response

As I keep reading the book Georgia Odyssey by James C. Cobb there are many subjects that piqued my interest such as: the subject of land, Jim Crow Laws, and the right of a women named Rebecca Latimer Felton. These events happened and affected our today society. While reading I asked myself, "What does this have to do with me?" I realized that Jim was a great boundary between the whites and blacks but later in history that changed. Another fact is that Rebecca Felton brought about the freedom of women as in the right to vote or also known as Women's Suffrage.

In the subject of land there were many cotton productions but not much slaves to work on the plantations because most of them gained their freedom after The American Revolution. Therefore the white man had to tend to the business and production. Since there was many cotton being produced the price for the cotton declined. The cotton growers were suggested that they expand their operations but even if they did this and grew more cotton the price for it would still remain less. The end of slavery and the rise of the crop-lien system brought about the demise of safety-first agriculture as merchants offered credit for cash crops only... (35)

Even though The American Revolution ended slavery segregation still took place. Blacks were discriminated by the color of their skin in Georgia. Between 1882 and 1930, at least 95 percent of blacks were victims of crimes in which they were found hung. At first it just seemed like the whites were just being unfair with the blacks but later on these horrible tortures or statutes were known as Jim Crow laws. It increased racism. The blacks and whites were segregated and each had their own sections. Whites had their own swimming pool, library, schools churches, etc. and blacks were not permitted entrance in them. Young kids could not attend schools where whites attended. Cobb also mentions that