The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South

It was the result of the 1857 merger of the periodicals The American Cotton Planter and The Soil of the South.

[3] Topics covered in the magazine included soil erosion and the "impudence of the negroes".

[5] Historian Walter Johnson describes The American Cotton Planter and similar works as "as a set of extended efforts to translate a practical knowledge that was most readily obtained by the field hands (and thus expropriated from them) into a set of visual terms—letters, words, charts, illustrations—which could be consumed through their owners' eyes".

[5] The predecessor publications, the American Cotton Planter and The Soil of the South ran from 1853 to 1856, and 1851 to 1857, respectively.

[6][7] The American Cotton Planter and the Soil of the South ceased publication in 1861.