Black Hands, White House: Slave Labor and the Making of America

by Renee K Harrison

Book Overview

Black Hands, White House documents and appraises the role enslaved women and men played in building the US, both its physical and its fiscal infrastructure. The book highlights the material commodities produced by enslaved communities during the Transatlantic Slave Trade. These commodities--namely tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton, among others--enriched European and US economies; contributed to the material and monetary wealth of the nation's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506474675
• ISBN13: 9781506474670
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"