Cotton and Race in the Making of America : the Human Costs of Economic Power.

Cotton and Race in the Making of America : the Human Costs of Economic Power.

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton couldbe grown. Both before and after the Civi...

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Main Author: Dattel, Gene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2009
Subjects:
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States > History.
Cotton growing > Economic aspects > Southern States > History.
Cotton growing > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
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