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- Title: Cotton and Race in the Making of America
- Author : Gene Dattel
- Release Date : January 16, 2009
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2127 KB
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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.