Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

by Seth Rockman

An eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.

The industrializing North and the agricultural South--that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226723453
• ISBN13: 9780226723457
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages