Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities

by Richard J. Follett, Peter Coclanis, Sven Beckert, et al.

Book Overview

How global competition brought the plantation kingdom to its knees.

In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421419394
• ISBN13: 9781421419398
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"