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Cotton and Race in the Making of America - 9781566637473

Un libro in lingua di Dattel Eugene R. edito da Ivan R Dee, 2009

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The fundamental paradox of the United States, "the simultaneous story of dynamic economic growth and the prolonged devastation of the African-American experience," was at its core the story of cotton, contends this book, echoing Karl Marx, who wrote in 1846 that "without cotton you have no modern industry" and "[w]ithout slavery, you have no cotton." The author describes the role of cotton in spurring economic growth in both the South and the North, while arguing that it gave economic incentive to both Northerners and Southerners to maintain slavery and, after the civil war, racial discrimination. He further argues that the advent of the mechanical cotton picker, by reducing the need for black farm labor, laid the ground for the successful campaign against legal segregation. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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