Cotton Kingdom
Cotton Kingdom

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1429015918

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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."

River of Dark Dreams
River of Dark Dreams

Author: Walter Johnson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-02-26

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0674074882

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River of Dark Dreams places the Cotton Kingdom at the center of worldwide webs of exchange and exploitation that extended across oceans and drove an insatiable hunger for new lands. This bold reaccounting dramatically alters our understanding of American slavery and its role in U.S. expansionism, global capitalism, and the upcoming Civil War.

Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom

Author: Robert H. Gudmestad

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 080713841X

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In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad offers new insights into the remarkable and significant history of transportation and commerce in the antebellum South. He examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the Southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries but also affected cotton production.