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020			_a1566639689 _q(pbk.)
020			_a9781566639682 _q(pbk.)
020			_a9781442210196 _q(electronic)
020			_a1442210192 _q(electronic)
035			_a(OCoLC)726824931
037			_a1335434 _bQBI
050	0	4	_aE441 _b.D237 2011
082	0	4	_a338.1/73510975 _222
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100	1		_aDattel, Eugene R.
245	1	0	_aCotton and race in the making of America : _bthe human costs of economic power / _cGene Dattel.
250			_a1st pbk. ed.
260			_aLanham, MD : _bIvan R Dee, _c
300			_axiv, 416 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aSlavery 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.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 373-397) and index.
520			_a"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 tragedy, slavery and its legacy, spread only where cotton could be grown. Both before and after the Civil War, and well into the twentieth century, blacks were relegated to work the cotton fields. Their social and economic situation was aggravated by a pervasive racial animosity and fear of a black migratory invasion that caused white Northerners to contain blacks in the South. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these 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. When cotton production exploded to satiate the nineteenth-century textile industry's enormous appetite, it became the first truly complex global business and a driving force in U.S. territorial expansion and sectional economic integration. It propelled New York City to commercial preeminence and fostered independent trade between Europe and the United States, providing export capital for the new nation to gain its financial "sea legs." And without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict. Cotton continued to exert a powerful influence on both the American economy and race relations in the years after the Civil War. Mr. Dattel's skillful historical analysis identifies the commercial forces that cotton unleashed and the pervasive nature of racial antipathy it produced. This is a story that has never been told in quite the same way before, related here with the authority of a historian with a profound knowledge of international finance."--Publisher's description.
650		0	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects _zSouthern States _xHistory.
650		0	_aCotton growing _xEconomic aspects _zSouthern States _xHistory.
650		0	_aCotton growing _xSocial aspects _zSouthern States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPlantation life _zSouthern States _xHistory.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zSouthern States _xSocial conditions.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic conditions.
650		0	_aSlavery _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1783-1865.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y1865-1933.
650		7	_aAfrican Americans _xSocial conditions. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00799698
650		7	_aCotton growing _xEconomic aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00880990
650		7	_aCotton growing _xSocial aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00881002
650		7	_aEconomic history. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650		7	_aPlantation life. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01065779
650		7	_aPolitics and government _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919741
650		7	_aRace relations. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01086509
650		7	_aSlavery _xEconomic aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01120438
650		7	_aSlavery _xPolitical aspects. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01120480
651		7	_aSouthern States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01244550
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
648		7	_a1783-1933 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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