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082 0 _a338.17351097
100 1 _aDattel, Gene.
245 1 0 _aCotton and Race in the Making of America :
_bThe Human Costs of Economic Power.
264 1 _aBlue Ridge Summit :
_bIvan R. Dee,
_c2009.
264 4 _c©2009.
300 _a1 online resource (295 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 _aIntro -- Part 1: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution -- Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention -- Part 2: The Engine of American Growth, 1787-1861 -- Chapter 2: Birth of an Obsession -- Chapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old Southwest -- Chapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton States -- Chapter 5: The Business of Cotton -- Chapter 6: The Roots of War -- Part 3: The North: For Whites Only, 1800-1865 -- Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the North -- Chapter 8: The Colonial North -- Chapter 9: Race Moves West -- Chapter 10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in America -- Part 4: King Cotton Buys a War -- Chapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a Strategy -- Chapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil War -- Chapter 13: Cotton and Confederate Finance -- Chapter 14: Procuring Arms -- Chapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United States -- Chapter 16: Cotton and the Freedmen -- Part 5: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865-1930 -- Chapter 17: New Era, Old Problems -- Chapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton Fields -- Chapter 19: Reconstruction Meets Reality -- Chapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton Boll -- Chapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago Experience -- Part 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930 -- Chapter 22: King Cotton Expands -- Chapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton Finance -- Chapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and Land -- Chapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton Picker -- Chapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton.
520 _aSince 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 blacks in the South.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
650 0 _aCotton growing -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History.
650 0 _aCotton growing -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History.
650 0 _aPlantation life -- Southern States -- History.
650 0 _aSlavery -- Economic aspects -- Southern States -- History.
650 0 _aSlavery -- Political aspects -- United States.
650 0 _aUnited States -- Race relations.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDattel, Gene
_tCotton and Race in the Making of America : The Human Costs of Economic Power
_dBlue Ridge Summit : Ivan R. Dee,c2009
_z9781566637473
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=781756
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