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Article: Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. By Robert B. Outland III. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 352. $47.95, ISBN 0-8071-2981-X.)
Like the smell of tobacco drying or magnolia in bloom, the turpene of longleaf pine produces an aroma of the American South. This magnificent tree, which can tower to one hundred feet, once covered much of the flat, sandy lands from the lower Chesapeake to the Gulf coast--a territory roughly the size of West Africa's Republic of Guinea. And, almost certainly, some of Guinea's diaspora and their descendants worked as slaves, convict laborers, or peons in "tapping the pines" ...