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Description Gene Dattel's book masterfully captures America's history and its painful legacy --Morgan Freeman Cotton and Race in the Making of America is Dattel's bold, unflinching, evenhanded interpretation of the connection between cotton, race, and the American experience. Dattel explores the force of cotton's economically productive, but socially devastating, march across America between 1787 and 1930. This is an American, not a Southern, story; it is a vastly unappreciated tale that is central to America's rise to economic power. Cotton may no longer be king, but its legacy endures. In order to understand American history it is necessary to understand the role of cotton. This powerful, disturbing book shows how whites' quest for economic power, and cotton's shockingly important role, easily subverted the Constitution's lofty rhetoric about human beings' inalienable rights. --– Lee Daniels, NAACP-Legal Defense Fund Sharing Widget |