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Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power

"For more than 130 years, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth, cotton was the leading export crop of the United States. And the connection between cotton and the African-American experience became central to the history of the republic. America's most serious social t...

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Main Author: Dattel, Eugene R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.
Subjects and Genres:
Slavery > Economic aspects > Southern States > History.
Cotton growing > Economic aspects > Southern States > History.
Cotton growing > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Race relations.
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1865-1933.
Online Access:Book review (H-Net)
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Call Number: E 441 .D237 2009
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