Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery / Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University.
Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975- author.
2018
E441 .S34 2018 (Mapit)
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Title Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery / Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University.
Author Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975- author.
ISBN 9781107608580 (paperback)
1107608589 (paperback)
9781107027664 (hardcover)
1107027667 (hardcover)
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language English
Description ix, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number E441 .S34 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.3/620973
Summary "The essence of United States slavery was forced labor. Enslaved people's unrequited toil built a significant portion of the nation's wealth. They labored in many farming, mining, construction, transport, and factory settings. But by the 1830s most worked in cotton fields in the Deep South in the most important sector of the American economy. The cotton bales they made streamed into factories in New and old England, spun into yarn and woven into fabric clothing people across the globe. Cotton shipped abroad each year increased from just a few thousand bales in 1790 to four million by 1860."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Cambridge essential histories.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Counter-revolutionaries
Slow death for slavery?
Cotton empire
Black insurgency
Financial chains
Life in the quotidian
Landscape of sexual violence
Industrial discipline
Narratives
Geopolitics
Abolition war
No justice, no peace
Conclusion.

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