Friday, December 12, 2008

DeBow's Review



Published in New Orleans DeBow's Review was one of the leading agricultural and commerce periodicals of the era.
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On 19th Century Agricultural Jorurnals

Southern agricultural, or farm journals, are fascinating technologies that played a crucial role in disseminating information on a sundry of agricultural phenomena in the 19th century. This blog is particularly interested in the role these journals played in satisfying the information needs of planters during the antebellum period.