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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.
Physical Description: xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
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.

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