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

by Gene Dattel

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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 could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, blacks were assigned to the cotton fields while a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion caused white Northerners to contain...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1566637473

ISBN13:9781566637473

Release Date:September 2009

Publisher:Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Length:432 Pages

Weight:1.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Related Subjects

Abolition Africa African-American Studies Agricultural Sciences Agriculture Business Business & Finance Business & Investing Discrimination & Racism Economic History

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