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Plantation Kingdom - The American South and Its Global Commodities (Paperback)
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Plantation Kingdom - The American South and Its Global Commodities (Paperback)
Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
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Loot Price R447
Discovery Miles 4 470
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In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton
dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco
grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland
to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the
fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most
powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty
years later-after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor
system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw
materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets-America's
plantations lay in ruins. Plantation Kingdom traces the rise and
fall of America's plantation economy. Written by four renowned
historians, the book demonstrates how an international capitalist
system rose out of slave labor, indentured servitude, and the mass
production of agricultural commodities for world markets. Vast
estates continued to exist after emancipation, but tenancy and
sharecropping replaced slavery's work gangs across most of the
plantation world. Poverty and forced labor haunted the region well
into the twentieth century. The book explores the importance of
slavery to the Old South, the astounding profitability of
plantation agriculture, and the legacy of emancipation. It also
examines the place of American producers in world markets and
considers the impact of globalization and international competition
150 years ago. Written for scholars and students alike, Plantation
Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.
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