Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (Southern Classics Series) [Paperback]

Ben Robertson (Author), Lacy K. Ford (Introduction)

Product Details

• Paperback: 348 pages
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (December 12, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872493067
• ISBN-13: 978-0872493063
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #357,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the best books I ever read, February 18, 1999

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This review is from: Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (Southern Classics Series) (Paperback)

An English professor I had in college once berated me at a poker game for recommending this book. He had never heard of it. I gave him a copy. I can only imagine the sardonic moment in which he finally picked it up. He loved it. The book was given to me by a Capitol Hill policeman from North Carolina. This is the sort of book that will help Yankee's (like me)to understand the Old South; a truly liberal and enlightened view. This is one of those books, whose author was struck down early in life, that makes you wonder what might have come from his pen had he lived. These are memoirs, memoirs of the old folks that made up the backbone of the South after the Civil War up to the Great Depression, real, living people whom, thorough these pages, become a delight to get acquainted with.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Red Hills and Cotton, June 19, 2008

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Doncburt "DON C BURT" (ROSSER, TEXAS, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory (Southern Classics Series) (Paperback)

This is one of my all time favorites. Being raised on a cotton farm in Texas in the depression, I can relate to it entirely. It showed me the close relationship of all southern people and the common heritage even though our farms were a 1,000 miles apart. Many of Ben's relatives were just like mine. And cotton was King. It was the main topic of conversation all year.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Authenic, December 30, 2005

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J. Price "Carroll Price" (Waynesboro, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red hills and cotton,: An upcountry memory

From a member of the next generation with recollections and experiences of a similar nature, I can assure you that this book gives a highly accurate account of what it was like growing up in the rural South. The next best book of this nature, and one similar to it is "Run With the Horsemen", by Ferol Sams. Although "Run With the Horsemen" is classed as a novel, it accurately portrays life in the rural South during the Great Depression. Please don't miss reading either of these great books concerning events that occured at a special time and in a very special place.