Cotton and race in the making of America :
Dattel, Eugene R.
Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / Gene Dattel. - 1st pbk. ed. - Lanham, MD : Ivan R Dee, 2011, c2009. - xiv, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-397) and index.
Slavery in the making of the Constitution -- The silent issue at the Constitutional Convention -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
1566639689 (pbk.) 9781566639682 (pbk.)
2009001342
Slavery--Economic aspects--History.--Southern States
Cotton growing--Economic aspects--History.--Southern States
Cotton growing--Social aspects--History.--Southern States
Plantation life--History.--Southern States
African Americans--Social conditions.--Southern States
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.
338.1/73510975
Cotton and race in the making of America : the human costs of economic power / Gene Dattel. - 1st pbk. ed. - Lanham, MD : Ivan R Dee, 2011, c2009. - xiv, 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-397) and index.
Slavery in the making of the Constitution -- The silent issue at the Constitutional Convention -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
1566639689 (pbk.) 9781566639682 (pbk.)
2009001342
Slavery--Economic aspects--History.--Southern States
Cotton growing--Economic aspects--History.--Southern States
Cotton growing--Social aspects--History.--Southern States
Plantation life--History.--Southern States
African Americans--Social conditions.--Southern States
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.
338.1/73510975