The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization

by Curtis J. Evans

Book Overview

The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807156817
• ISBN13: 9780807156810
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"