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Hardcover Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities Book

ISBN: 1421419394

ISBN13: 9781421419398

Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities

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How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had...

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