Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / Gene Dattel.
by
Dattel, Eugene R.
ISBN
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9781442210196
Title
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Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / Gene Dattel.
Author
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Dattel, Eugene R.
Personal Author
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Dattel, Eugene R.
Publication Information
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Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (xiv, 416 pages) : illustrations
Contents
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pt. 1: Slavery in the making of the Constitution. The silent issue at the Constitutional Convention -- pt. 2: The engine of American growth, 1787-1861. Birth of an obsession -- Land expansion and white migration to the Old Southwest -- The movement of slaves to the cotton states -- The business of cotton -- The roots of war -- pt. 3: The north: for whites only, 1800-1865. Being free and black in the North -- The colonial North -- Race moves west -- Tocqueville on slavery, race, and money in America -- pt. 4: King Cotton buys a war. Cultivating a crop, cultivating a strategy -- Great Britain and the Civil War -- Cotton and Confederate finance -- Procuring arms -- Cotton trading in the United States -- Cotton and the freedman -- pt. 5: The racial divide and cotton labor, 1865-1930. New era, old problems -- Ruling the freedmen in the cotton fields -- Reconstruction meets reality -- The black hand on the cotton boll -- From cotton field to urban ghetto : the Chicago experience -- pt. 6: Cotton without slaves, 1865-1930. King Cotton expands -- The controlling laws of cotton finance -- The delta plantation : labor and land -- The planter experience in the twentieth century -- The long-awaited mechanical cotton picker -- The abdication of King Cotton.
Local Note
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Subject Term
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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.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Cotton growing -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00880990
Cotton growing -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00881002
Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
Plantation life. (OCoLC)fst01065779
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Slavery -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst01120438
Slavery -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst01120480
Electronic books.
Geographic Term
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United States -- Race relations.
United States -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Format
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Electronic Resources
Electronic Access
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Publication Date
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2009
Publication Information
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Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.
Shelf Number | Material Type | Copy | Shelf Location | Status |
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338.173510975 22 | 1:E-BOOK | 1 | 1:ONLINE | Available for online access and/or download |