This lecture deals with the impact of export agriculture upon the space between the town and the wood.

I.  The "Three Societies" of the colonial era
 Bridenbaugh's thesis
 Chesapeake Society--tobacco economy
 Carolina Society--rice/indigo, then cotton economy
 Back Country Society--hunting/subsistence farming

II.  Modifications of Bridenbaugh's thesis
 Other societies
  French
  Spanish
  British
  Amerindian
 Carolina society was not exclusively based on agriculture
 Back Country society not exclusively based on subsistence

III.  Hides
 Significance of the fur trade
 Not only a northern or western phenomenon
 Fur trade as a link between the town and the wood
 Hides as an export item, not subsistence item
 Wood economy is global, not local
 Fur trade fuels early transformation of wood into rural

IV.  Cotton
 How cotton grows
  the plant
  harvest
  processing
 Cotton economy
  cabin-and-patch
  plantation cotton
 Cotton Gin and the transformation of cotton economy
 Cotton and the rural
 Cotton vs. Hides:  low country vs. backcountry
 Slave vs. Pioneer farmer
  where the slaves were and why

V.  Agriculture as Industry
 Plantations as factories
 Fur trade waste as industrial pollution
 Pressure of trade upon the rural