Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Eco

Contributor(s): Dattel, Gene (Author) ISBN: 1566637473 EAN: 9781566637473 Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher (View Publisher's Titles) US SRP: $ 28.95 US - (Discount: REG) Binding: Hardcover - Other Formats Pub Date: September 16, 2009 Annotation: 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. 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.