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Plantation Kingdom

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Plantation Kingdom

By Richard Follett, Sven Beckert, Peter Coclanis, Barbara M. Hahn

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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 ...Show more

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9781421419404

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Johns Hopkins University Press

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2016

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Plantation Kingdom

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