Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

by Roger G. Kennedy

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This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters' need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the Jeffersonian era, Cotton and Conquest stretches from...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0806143460

ISBN13:9780806143460

Release Date:June 2013

Publisher:University of Oklahoma Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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