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A Killing on Ring Jaw Bluff: The Great Recession and The Death of Small Town Georgia

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A KILLING ON RING JAW BLUFF recounts the rise and fall of Georgia s rural population as told through the story of Charles Graves Rawlings. His life followed that of cotton-based agriculture after the Civil War and along side it the rise and fall of Georgia’s small towns. From modest beginnings as a liveryman, he acquired nearly 40,000 acres of land, in addition to a bank, a railroad, and diverse other businesses. By 1920, he used to be some of the state s wealthier men, with a loving wife and family, and powerful political connections. Five years later he used to be facing a sentence of life in prison for his role in the alleged murder of his first cousin, Gus Tarbutton. The growth of wealth in rural Georgia right through the first two decades of the twentieth century used to be dramatic, as used to be the economic crash that accompanied and followed the so-called Great Recession of 1920-21. Whilst the rest of the nation recovered hastily, transitioning to the era of the Roaring Twenties, the rural South remained mired in social and financial despair. The forces that led to this economic whipsaw were more than one, including the loosening of credit and inflation that accompanied and followed World War I, the effective monetization of cotton as a commodity, the competition for labor from the industrialized North, and the bubble in cotton prices that burst in 1920. Even though the boll weevil arrived in the state in 1915, it used to be only in 1921 that the pest began to severely impact the cotton crop. By then other economic forces were in play, relegating the role of the weevil to that of delivering a final blow to an already moribund economy. This is the story of rural Georgia that foreshadowed our own day, our own story.

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