Cotton and race in the making of America: the human costs of economic power

pt. 1: Slavery in the making of the Constitution. The silent issue at the Constitutional Convention

pt. 2: The engine of American growth, 1787-1861. Birth of an obsession

Land expansion and white migration to the Old Southwest

The movement of slaves to the cotton states

The business of cotton

The roots of war

pt. 3: The north: for whites only, 1800-1865. Being free and black in the North

The colonial North

Race moves west

Tocqueville on slavery, race, and money in America

pt. 4: King Cotton buys a war. Cultivating a crop, cultivating a strategy

Great Britain and the Civil War

Cotton and Confederate finance

Procuring arms

Cotton trading in the United States

Cotton and the freedman

pt. 5: The racial divide and cotton labor, 1865-1930. New era, old problems

Ruling the freedmen in the cotton fields

Reconstruction meets reality

The black hand on the cotton boll

From cotton field to urban ghetto : the Chicago experience

pt. 6: Cotton without slaves, 1865-1930. King Cotton expands

The controlling laws of cotton finance

The delta plantation : labor and land

The planter experience in the twentieth century

The long-awaited mechanical cotton picker

The abdication of King Cotton.