Historian Daniel Rood’s IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT HOUSE

Booktalk with Diana Korte · May 1, 2026 · 22m

Host Diana Korte speaks with historian and University of Georgia professor Daniel Rood, author of 2 books. His newest title is “IN THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT HOUSE. A History of the Plantation in America.” In a narrative that sweeps across 400 years of American history, Rood reveals that the plantation did not die after the Civil War. It metastasized. From the advent of sharecropping in the late 19th century to the rise of cotton in mid-20th century California to today’s chicken processing plants which sit on the same land once occupied by plantations and staffed largely by migrant workers, the…