Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

by Roger G. Kennedy

This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters' need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated author Roger G. Kennedy takes a long view. Locating the genesis of Southern expansionism in the Jeffersonian era, Cotton and Conquest stretches from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806143460
• ISBN13: 9780806143460
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"