Slave CountryHarvard University Press, 25 abr 2005 - 312 páginas Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Adam Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South. |
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... cotton gin reached the lower Mississippi Valley by 1795 , eliminating the most serious technical obstacle to the commercial production of short - staple cotton . Taking advantage of new technology and high prices , planters and farmers ...
... cotton in the mid - 1790s . Dunbar and his slaves experimented with new strains of cotton , improved on the design of the cotton gin , in- vented a screw press for packing cotton , and pioneered techniques for extracting cottonseed oil ...
... cotton . " He offered them seed and lessons in planting , and looked forward to the arrival of a cotton gin- " a great spur to industry . " 86 In 1802 a trader named Abram Mordecai set up a cotton gin below the junction of the Coosa and ...
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Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam ROTHMAN Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South Adam Rothman Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
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Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth ... Richmond F. Brown Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion [Two Volumes] ABC-CLIO, LLC,Harcourt Education No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2006 |