Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery / Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schermerhorn, Calvin, 1975- author.

Series:

Cambridge essential histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States.

History.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States.

Slavery--Economic aspects.

Cotton trade--United States--History.

Cotton trade.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

History of United States slavery

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The essence of United States slavery was forced labor. Enslaved people's unrequited toil built a significant portion of the nation's wealth. They labored in many farming, mining, construction, transport, and factory settings. But by the 1830s most worked in cotton fields in the Deep South in the most important sector of the American economy. The cotton bales they made streamed into factories in New and old England, spun into yarn and woven into fabric clothing people across the globe. Cotton shipped abroad each year increased from just a few thousand bales in 1790 to four million by 1860."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Counter-revolutionaries

Slow death for slavery?

Cotton empire

Black insurgency

Financial chains

Life in the quotidian

Landscape of sexual violence

Industrial discipline

Narratives

Geopolitics

Abolition war

No justice, no peace

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107027664

1107027667

9781107608580

1107608589

OCLC:

1023083090