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