American Cotton
Author | : Third Floor Quilts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578404783 |
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Author | : Third Floor Quilts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-02-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578404783 |
Author | : Gene Dattel |
Publisher | : Government Institutes |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442210192 |
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. Gene Dattel's pioneering study explores the historical roots of these most 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 thereby a major 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" in the world economy. Without slave-produced cotton, the South could never have initiated the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict at home. 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 the history of international finance. With 23 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Christopher M. Span |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469601338 |
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse is the first comprehensive examination of Mississippi's politics and policies of postwar racial education. The primary debate centered on whether schools for African Americans (mostly freedpeople) should seek to develop blacks as citizens, train them to be free but subordinate laborers, or produce some other outcome. African Americans envisioned schools established by and for themselves as a primary means of achieving independence, equality, political empowerment, and some degree of social and economic mobility--in essence, full citizenship. Most northerners assisting freedpeople regarded such expectations as unrealistic and expected African Americans to labor under contract for those who had previously enslaved them and their families. Meanwhile, many white Mississippians objected to any educational opportunities for the former slaves. Christopher Span finds that newly freed slaves made heroic efforts to participate in their own education, but too often the schooling was used to control and redirect the aspirations of the newly freed.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1192 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Cooperative marketing of farm produce |
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Author | : D. Clayton Brown |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2011-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628469323 |
King Cotton in Modern America places the once kingly crop in historical perspective, showing how "cotton culture" was actually part of the larger culture of the United States despite many regarding its cultivation and sources as hopelessly backward. Leaders in the industry, acting through the National Cotton Council, organized the various and often conflicting segments to make the commodity a viable part of the greater American economy. The industry faced new challenges, particularly the rise of foreign competition in production and the increase of man-made fibers in the consumer market. Modernization and efficiency became key elements for cotton planters. The expansion of cotton- growing areas into the Far West after 1945 enabled American growers to compete in the world market. Internal dissension developed between the traditional cotton growing regions in the South and the new areas in the West, particularly over the USDA cotton allotment program. Mechanization had profound social and economic impacts. Through music and literature, and with special emphasis placed on the meaning of cotton to African Americans in the lore of Memphis's Beale Street, blues music, and African American migration off the land, author D. Clayton Brown carries cotton's story to the present.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1196 |
Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Leander D. Howell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Robert H. Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Cotton spinning |
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Author | : Robert H. Baird |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Cotton spinning |
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