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Scarlet Sister Mary / by Peterkin, Julia,1880-1961.(CARDINAL)123273;
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxiv-xxxv).Banned in Boston when it was first published in 1928, Scarlet Sister Mary is the story of a sexy, independent, and outspoken woman who lives to please herself. Abandoned by her husband, the heroine takes many lovers, loses her firstborn son, and eventually "finds peace" as a church member, although she refuses to give up her love charm and her gold hoop earrings. Scarlet Sister Mary shocked readers with its sensual portrayal of a black woman's private life, but it was universally lauded for its honesty and courage. The first edition sold more than one million copies worldwide, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1929.Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 1929.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African American women; Plantation workers;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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The vortex : a novel / by Rivera, José Eustasio,1888-1928,author.(CARDINAL)778436; Chasteen, John Charles,1955-translator,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)375505;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Rubber plantation workers; Rubber plantations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The flower boy : a novel / by Roberts, Karen(Karen Marisa Judith)(CARDINAL)660005;
Subjects: Fiction.; British; Children; Friendship; Plantation life; Tea plantation workers; Children.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Raising cane : the world of plantation Hawaii / by Stefoff, Rebecca,1951-(CARDINAL)284711; Takaki, Ronald T.,1939-2009.Strangers from a different shore.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and index.
Subjects: Asians; Foreign workers; Plantation workers; Sugar workers; Asian Americans;
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."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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Scars on the land : an environmental history of slavery in the American South / by Silkenat, David,author.(CARDINAL)302996;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-249) and index.An exhausted soil -- An animal without hope -- Dragged out by the roots -- Breaches in the levee -- A southern cyclone -- An inhospitable refuge -- Landscape of freedom.
Subjects: Slave trade; Slavery; Enslaved persons; Slave labor; Plantation workers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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