LEADER 04699nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910827592503321 005 20230207231406.0 010 $a1-283-28375-1 010 $a9786613283757 010 $a1-4422-1019-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000049542 035 $a(EBL)781756 035 $a(OCoLC)755417141 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535463 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535463 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522626 035 $a(PQKB)10059512 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000648609 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12295835 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000648609 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10598322 035 $a(PQKB)10419788 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC781756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL781756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10502010 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL328375 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000049542 100 $a20090113d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCotton and race in the making of America$b[electronic resource] $ethe human costs of economic power /$fGene Dattel 210 $aChicago $cIvan R. Dee$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (604 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-56663-968-9 311 $a1-56663-747-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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 327 $aPart 4: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 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 327 $aPart 6: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865-1930Chapter 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 330 $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. 606 $aSlavery$xEconomic aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aCotton growing$xEconomic aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aCotton growing$xSocial aspects$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aPlantation life$zSouthern States$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions 606 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1865 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1865-1933 615 0$aSlavery$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCotton growing$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCotton growing$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPlantation life$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSlavery$xPolitical aspects 676 $a338.1/73510975 700 $aDattel$b Eugene R$01696498 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827592503321 996 $aCotton and race in the making of America$94076487 997 $aUNINA