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Empire of cotton : a global history / by Beckert, Sven,author.(CARDINAL)360459;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global South -- The weave and the weft: an epilogue."The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Here is the story of how, beginning well before the advent of machine production in 1780, these men created a potent innovation (Beckert calls it war capitalism, capitalism based on unrestrained actions of private individuals; the domination of masters over slaves, of colonial capitalists over indigenous inhabitants), and crucially affected the disparate realms of cotton that had existed for millennia. We see how this thing called war capitalism shaped the rise of cotton, and then was used as a lever to transform the world. The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, farmers and merchants, workers and factory owners. In this as in so many other ways, Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the modern world. The result is a book as unsettling and disturbing as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Capitalism; Cotton plantation workers; Cotton textile industry; Cotton trade; Enslaved persons.; Labor; Slavery; Textile workers.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 29
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Empire of cotton [sound recording] : a global history / by Beckert, Sven.(CARDINAL)360459; Frangione, James.(CARDINAL)350287;
Read by Jim Frangione. The story of how European entrepreneurs and powerful statesmen recast the world's most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to change the world. Beginning well before the advent of machine production in the 1780s, these men captured ancient trades and skills in Asia, combining them with the expropriation of lands in the Americas.
Subjects: Slavery; Enslaved persons; Textile workers.; Capitalism; Cotton trade; Cotton plantation workers; Labor; Cotton textile industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Empire of cotton : a global history / by Beckert, Sven,author.(CARDINAL)360459;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The rise of a global commodity -- Building war capitalism -- The wages of war capitalism -- Capturing labor, conquering land -- Slavery takes command -- Industrial capitalism takes wing -- Mobilizing industrial labor -- Making cotton global -- A war reverberates around the world -- Global reconstruction -- Destructions -- The new cotton imperialism -- The return of the global South -- The weave and the weft : an epilogue.Bancroft Prize, 2015.Pulitzer Prize Finalist, History, 2015
Subjects: Cotton textile industry; Cotton trade; Cotton plantation workers; Slavery; Enslaved persons.; Textile workers.; Capitalism; Labor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cane River Creole National Historical Park, Louisiana / by United States.National Park Service,issuing body.(CARDINAL)139282;
Subjects: Historic sites; National parks and reserves; Cotton plantation workers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The plantation South today / by Woofter, T. J.,Jr.(Thomas Jackson),1893-1972,author.(CARDINAL)131980; Fisher, A. E.,author.; United States.Work Projects Administration,issuing body.(CARDINAL)152244;
Includes bibliographical references (page 3 of cover).
Subjects: Plantation life; Plantation owners; Cotton plantation workers; Cotton growing;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pale : a novel / by Farmer, Edward A.,author.(CARDINAL)870526;
"Some things just don't keep well inside this house ... The summer of 1966 burned hot across America but nowhere hotter than the cotton fields of Mississippi. Finding herself in a precarious position as a black woman living alone, Bernice accepts her brother Floyd's invitation to join him as a servant for a white family and she enters the web of hostility and deception that is the Kern plantation household. The secrets of the house are plentiful yet the silence that has encompassed it for so many years suddenly breaks with the arrival of the harvest and the appearance of Jesse and Fletcher to the plantation as cotton pickers. These two brothers, the sons of the house servant Silva, awaken a vengeful seed within the Missus of the house as she plots to punish not only her husband but Silva's family as well. When the Missus starts flirting with Jesse, she sets into motion a dangerous game that could get Jesse killed and destroy the lives of the rest of the servants. Bernice walks the fine line between emissary and accomplice, as she tries her best to draw secrets from the Missus's heart, while using their closeness to protect the lives of the people around her. Once the Missus's plans are complete, families will be severed, loyalties will be shattered, and no one will come out unscathed."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Revenge; Family secrets; Nineteen sixties; Household employees; Plantations; African Americans; Cotton plantation workers;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Slavery in the cities; the South, 1820-1860 by Wade, Richard C.,1922-2008.(CARDINAL)125765;
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 287-323.I. The Negro's view : Nat Turner : Confessions. Josiah Henson : My first great trial ; My boyhood and youth ; Maimed for life. Solomon Northup : A Louisiana cotton plantation ; A Louisiana sugar plantation. Frederick Douglass : A general survey of the slave plantation ; A slaveholder's character ; A child's reasoning ; Luxuries at the great house. Testimony of the Canadian fugitives : Edward Hicks ; Henry Blue ; Thomas Hedgebeth ; Harry Thomas ; William A. Hall. -- II. The view of the northerners and the British : Isaac Weld ; Basil Hall : A slave auction ; Slave patrols and tobacco ; A rice plantation. Frances Kemble : A residence in Georgia. Frederick Law Olmsted : A tobacco plantation in Virginia ; A free-labor farm in Virginia ; Recreation and luxury among the slaves ; Ingenuity of the negro ; Qualities as a laborer ; Improvement of the negro in slavery ; Educational privileges ; A distinguished divine ; How they are fed ; Lodgings ; Clothing ; Fraternity ; Religious condition. Charles Mackay : The social and political aspects of slavery -- III. The view of the southern white : Thomas Jefferson ; Thomas Roderick Dex ; James Henry Hammond ; George Fitzhugh : The counter current, or slavery principle. Hinton Rowan Helper.This is a classic work on how slaves adapted to urban life and found some bit of solace from the pecular institution by working in cities. Richard Wade explains how slaves worked as carpenters, metal workers, painters, and numerous other jobs to earn income for their masters and themselves. The city changed the character of slavery by giving slaves some choices and flexibility in mixing with the urban environment.
Subjects: Slavery; Cities and towns;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sharecroppers all / by Raper, Arthur Franklin,1899-1979.(CARDINAL)132839; Reid, Ira De Augustine,1901-1968.(CARDINAL)132663;
Rich land--poor man. Why bother? -- Cotton-tenancy--fluid and fixed -- Propped-up plantations -- Poor land and peasantry -- The Negro gets pinched. Brown faces and bright lights -- "Colored gentlemen" and "niggers" -- The Negro worker's dilemma -- Washerwoman and schoolteacher -- "Nigger, back to the cotton fields" -- Mr. Sam, Uncle Sam, and Sam -- The white man bows. "Eat, mule, eat the azaleas" -- Efficient and reasonable labor -- Fur coats and white collars -- Arid aristocracy and the new wealth -- The national pattern -- Regional receipts -- Differentials and democracy -- Whither the south?
Subjects: Sharecropping.; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Chained to the land : voices from cotton & cane plantations : from interviews of former slaves / by Tanner, Lynette Ater,editor.(CARDINAL)407212;
Introduction: Louisiana, the melting pot -- [1] Concordia Parish/Natchez area -- Mary Reynolds -- Silas Spotfore -- Victoria Williams -- [2] West Carroll Parish -- Edward Ashley -- [3] Monroe area -- Mary Island -- Mandy Johnson -- Annie Parks -- Charley Williams -- [4] Bienville Parish -- Isaac Adams -- Marion Johnson -- [5] Alexandria/Central Louisiana -- Adam Hall -- Isabella Jackson -- Mandy Rollins -- [6] Lafayette/Opelousas area -- Octavia Fontenette -- Mary Ann John -- Henry Reed -- Carlyle Stewart -- [7] Baton Rouge area -- Catherine Cornelius -- John McDonald -- Albert Patterson -- Robert St. Ann -- Shack Wilson -- [8] New Orleans area -- Peter Barber -- Ellen Broomfield -- Henrietta Butler -- Manda Cooper -- Martin Dragney -- Mrs. M.S. Fayman -- Rebecca Fletcher -- Annie Flowers -- Ceceil George -- Mary Harris -- Elizabeth Ross Hite -- Odel Jackson -- Daffney Johnson -- Hannah Kelly -- Frances Lewis -- Hunton Love -- Charles Pancanses -- Gracie Stafford -- Mrs. Webb -- Julia Woodrich."During the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sent workers to interview over 2,200 former slaves about their experiences during slavery and the time immediately after the Civil War. The interviews conducted with the former Louisiana slaves often showed a different life from the slaves in neighboring states. Louisiana was unique among the slave-holding states because of French law and influence, as demonstrated in the standards set to govern slaves in Le Code Noir. Its history was also different from many Southern states because of the prevalence of large sugar cane as well as cotton plantations, which benefited from the frequent replenishment of rich river silt deposited by Mississippi River floods. At Frogmore Plantation, which is located in Louisiana across the Mississippi River from Natchez, co-owner Lynette Tanner has spent 16 years researching and interpreting the slave narratives in order to share these stories with visitors from around the globe. The plantation offers historical re-enactments, written by Tanner, that are performed by descendants of former Natchez District slaves. In this collection, Tanner gathered interviews conducted with former slaves who lived in Louisiana at the time of the interviews as well as narratives with those who had been enslaved in Louisiana but had moved to a different state by the 1930s. Their recollections of food, housing, clothing, weddings, and funerals, as well as treatment and relationships echo memories of an era, like no other, for which America still has repercussions today"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Interviews.; Enslaved persons; Freed persons; African Americans; Enslaved persons; Plantation life; Slavery;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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White lawyer, Black power : a memoir of civil rights activism in the deep South / by Jelinek, Donald A.(Lawyer),author.; Dittmer, John,1939-writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)374436;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Going South -- Lawyers for the movement -- On the road -- Mississippi's newest Civil Rights worker -- Novice county leader -- Time to leave ... and return -- Full-time Civil Rights lawyer -- The "rape" of the plantation owner's wife -- A crack in the movement -- White lawyer in black power Selma -- The Cotton Wars -- Black versus black in the 1966 elections -- The dark side of two federal judges -- No blacks on southern juries -- Fired and banished -- Unsung heroes of Selma : the fathers of St. Edmund -- The unimaginable poor -- The fight for food -- Goodbye to SNCC ... and the south."Author Donald Jelinek offers a powerful, first-hand account of his time working as a civil rights attorney in Mississippi and Alabama during a three-year period from 1965-1968. Originally Jelinek, an NYU-trained lawyer in his early 30s, volunteered only to spend a few weeks working pro bono for the ACLU in Mississippi. Instead, he ended up quitting his job with a New York City law firm and staying in the South for several consequential years. Jelinek provides compelling testimony of the work that he and other movement activists did during that time. Perhaps the richest portions of the book come when Jelinek describes his interactions with the local people who formed the core of the Movement in the Deep South. The passages describing conversations with Black sharecroppers and fellow civil rights organizers provide highly readable discussions of the nature of on-the-ground organizing that will be valuable both to scholars of the Movement and interested parties more generally. His account highlights the long, slow, hard work of organizing, work that was built one house at a time, through the cultivation of relationships and trust"--
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Jelinek, Donald A. (Lawyer); Lawyers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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