Gene Dattel

Cotton and Race in the Making of America

The Human Costs of Economic Power

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most central social issues. In telling detail Mr. Dattel shows why the vastly underappreciated story of cotton is a key to understanding America's rise to economic power.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9781566639682
• ISBN-10: 1566639689
• Artikelnr.: 34473561

Autorenporträt

By Gene Dattel

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution Chapter 1: The Silent
Issue at the Constitutional Convention Part II: 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 III: 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 IV: 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 V: 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 VI: 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