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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dattel, Gene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution; Chapter 01. The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention; Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861; Chapter 02. Birth of an Obsession; Chapter 03. Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest; Chapter 04. The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States; Chapter 05. The Business of Cotton; Chapter 06. The Roots of War; Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865; Chapter 07. Being Free and Black in the North; Chapter 08. The Colonial North; Chapter 09. Race Moves West.
  • Chapter 10. Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in AmericaPart 4: King Cotton Buys a War; Chapter 11. Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy; Chapter 12. Great Britain and the Civil War; Chapter 13. Cotton and Confederate Finance; Chapter 14. Procuring Arms; Chapter 15. Cotton Trading in the United States; Chapter 16. Cotton and the Freedmen; Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930; Chapter 17. New Era, Old Problems; Chapter 18. Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields; Chapter 19. Reconstruction Meets Reality; Chapter 20. The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll.
  • Chapter 21. From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago ExperiencePart 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930; Chapter 22. King Cotton Expands; Chapter 23. The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance; Chapter 24. The Delta Plantation:Labor and Land; Chapter 25. The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century; Chapter 26. The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker; Chapter 27. The Abdication of King Cotton; Appendix; Notes; Index; A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR.