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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans - Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities (Hardcover)
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans - Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities (Hardcover)
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Using two case studies from different frontier regions in
nineteenth-century America, this book reveals how marginalized
ethnic and racial communities resisted the attempts of governing
officials and investors to control them through capitalist economic
and government frameworks. In backcountry Virginia, immigrants from
Germany opted to purchase ceramic wares produced by their own local
communities instead of buying manufactured goods supplied by urban
centers like Washington, D.C. In Illinois, free African Americans
in the town of New Philadelphia worked to obtain land and produce
agricultural commodities, defying structural racism that was meant
to channel resources and economic value away from them. These small
choices and actions had large ripple effects. Looking at the
economic systems of these regions in relation to transatlantic and
global factors, Christopher Fennell offers rare insight into the
development of America's consumer economy.
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