For 10 points, identify this region of the U.S. where AAVE originated, and whose postbellum history is explored in DuBois's Black Reconstruction.
The economic organization of this region is presented as a positive alternative to wage dependency in a book that argues many of this region's workers were "grown up children." A sociologist argued that one of the two groups of proletarians in this region was compensated by a "psychological wage" of sorts in exchange for failing to unite with the other against its dominant landowning class. A defense of this region's economic system is found in Cannibals All! by (*) George Fitzhugh. Extensive observations of the economy of this region were made by Frederick Law Olmsted during his travels here. "Sorrow songs" developed as a folk culture reaction to this region's sad history according to W. E. B. DuBois. For 10 points, identify this region of the U.S. where AAVE originated, and whose postbellum history is explored in DuBois's Black Reconstruction.
The economic organization of this region is presented as a positive alternative to wage dependency in a book that argues many of this region's workers were "grown up children."
(American) South [or The South; accept any region within the American South; accept equivalents indicating the region/states of the United States where slave ownership was widespread]