Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas by Roger G. Kennedy

Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas

Roger G. Kennedy

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This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters' need ...

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