Cotton and Race in the Making of America

The Human Costs of Economic Power

Gene Dattel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2009
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56663-747-3 (ISBN)

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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. 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.

Gene Dattel grew up in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta and studied history at Yale and law at Vanderbilt. He then embarked on a twenty-year career in financial capital markets as a managing director at Salomon Brothers and at Morgan Stanley. A consultant to major financial institutions and to the Pentagon, he established a reputation as a foremost authority on Asian economies. His The Sun That Never Rose remains the definitive work on Japanese financial institutions in the 1980s. Mr. Dattel is now an independent scholar who lectures widely and has served as an adviser to the New York Historical Society and the B. B. King Museum. He lives in New York City. For more information, see www.genedattel.com.

Part I: Slavery in the Making of the Constitution
Chapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional Convention
Part II: 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 III: 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
Part IV: King Cotton Buys a War
Chapter 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 V: 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
Part VI: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865–1930
Chapter 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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.2009
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	168 x 246 mm
Gewicht	839 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-56663-747-3 / 1566637473
ISBN-13	978-1-56663-747-3 / 9781566637473
Zustand	Neuware