Swing The Harvest Analysis

Throughout the book; Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe, Berry covers a lot of the issues such slavery and bondage. She shows how complicated life is for a slave and the slave holders. The gender, labor and social relationship throughout Georgia around the mid-1800s. Many words were used to describe how gender played a role throughout the book: “skilled and unskilled”. The two counties that was in the book was Wilkes, and Glynn Counties. These two counties had different slave systems. Wilkes County which was in northern regions had an open system which allowed more slaves mobility between plantations, but remained very small. While on the other hand Glynn County which was near Savannah in the south had a closed system. Which were larger