Cotton and Race in the Making of America (eBook)

Gene Dattel grew up in the cotton country of the Mississippi Delta and studied history at Yale and law at Vanderbilt. He then embarked on a twenty-year career in financial capital markets as a managing director at Salomon Brothers and at Morgan Stanley. A consultant to major financial institutions and to the Pentagon, he established a reputation as a foremost authority on Asian economies. His The Sun That Never Rose remains the definitive work on Japanese financial institutions in the 1980s. Mr. Dattel is now an independent scholar who lectures widely and has served as an adviser to the New York Historical Society and the B. B. King Museum. He lives in New York City. For more information, see www.genedattel.com.

Part I: Slavery in the Making of the ConstitutionChapter 1: The Silent Issue at the Constitutional ConventionPart II: The Engine of American Growth, 1787–1861Chapter 2: Birth of an ObsessionChapter 3: Land Expansion and White Migration to the Old SouthwestChapter 4: The Movement of Slaves to the Cotton StatesChapter 5: The Business of CottonChapter 6: The Roots of WarPart III: The North: For Whites Only, 1800–1865Chapter 7: Being Free and Black in the NorthChapter 8: The Colonial NorthChapter 9: Race Moves WestChapter 10: Tocqueville on Slavery, Race, and Money in AmericaPart IV: King Cotton Buys a WarChapter 11: Cultivating a Crop, Cultivating a StrategyChapter 12: Great Britain and the Civil WarChapter 13: Cotton and Confederate FinanceChapter 14: Procuring ArmsChapter 15: Cotton Trading in the United StatesChapter 16: Cotton and the FreedmenPart V: The Racial Divide and Cotton Labor, 1865–1930Chapter 17: New Era, Old ProblemsChapter 18: Ruling the Freedmen in the Cotton FieldsChapter 19: Reconstruction Meets RealityChapter 20: The Black Hand on the Cotton BollChapter 21: From Cotton Field to Urban Ghetto: The Chicago ExperiencePart VI: Cotton Without Slaves, 1865–1930Chapter 22: King Cotton ExpandsChapter 23: The Controlling Laws of Cotton FinanceChapter 24: The Delta Plantation: Labor and LandChapter 25: The Planter Experience in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 26: The Long-Awaited Mechanical Cotton PickerChapter 27: The Abdication of King Cotton