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Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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...
2) The fall of the house of Dixie: the Civil War and the social revolution that transformed the South
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.
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