Cotton and Slavery II

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division,
The New York Public Library. “Nat Turner & his confederates in conference.”
(New York Public Library Digital Collections)
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Readings:
American Yawp Reader, chap. 11, “The Cotton Revolution Reader” (click through to five Primary Source documents)


Secondary Source: Dylan Penningroth, “Writing Slavery’s History,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 13–20

Secondary Source: Calvin Schermerhorn, “The Everyday Life of Enslaved People in the Antebellum South,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 31–36

Secondary Source: Thavolia Glymph, “Fighting Slavery on Slaveholders’ Terrain,” OAH Magazine of History 23, 2 (April 2009): 37–41.

 

Cotton and Slavery I
The American West