Read Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

Seth Rockman

4.9/5 (31787 ratings)

Description:An eye-opening rethinking of 19th-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early 19th century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South.Using plantation goods—the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South—historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans—white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free—across an expanding nation. By following the stories of material objects, such as shoes made by Massachusetts farm women that found their way to the feet of a Mississippi slave, Rockman reveals a national economy organized by slavery—a slavery that outsourced the production of its supplies to the North, and a North that outsourced its slavery to the South.Melding business and labor history through powerful storytelling, Plantation Goods brings northern industrialists, southern slaveholders, enslaved field hands, and paid factory laborers into the same picture. In one part of the country, entrepreneurs envisioned fortunes to be made from “planter’s hoes” and rural women spent their days weaving “negro cloth” and assembling “slave brogans.” In another, enslaved people actively consumed textiles and tools imported from the North to contest their bondage. In between, merchants, marketers, storekeepers, and debt collectors lay claim to the profits of a thriving interregional trade.Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, Plantation Goods explores how people in the 19th century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation. Rockman brings together lines of American history that have for too long been told separately, as slavery and capitalism converge in something as deceptively ordinary as a humble pair of shoes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. To get started finding Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0226723453

Description: An eye-opening rethinking of 19th-century American history that reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early 19th century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South.Using plantation goods—the shirts, hats, hoes, shovels, shoes, axes, and whips made in the North for use in the South—historian Seth Rockman locates the biggest stories in American history in the everyday objects that stitched together the lives and livelihoods of Americans—white and Black, male and female, enslaved and free—across an expanding nation. By following the stories of material objects, such as shoes made by Massachusetts farm women that found their way to the feet of a Mississippi slave, Rockman reveals a national economy organized by slavery—a slavery that outsourced the production of its supplies to the North, and a North that outsourced its slavery to the South.Melding business and labor history through powerful storytelling, Plantation Goods brings northern industrialists, southern slaveholders, enslaved field hands, and paid factory laborers into the same picture. In one part of the country, entrepreneurs envisioned fortunes to be made from “planter’s hoes” and rural women spent their days weaving “negro cloth” and assembling “slave brogans.” In another, enslaved people actively consumed textiles and tools imported from the North to contest their bondage. In between, merchants, marketers, storekeepers, and debt collectors lay claim to the profits of a thriving interregional trade.Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, Plantation Goods explores how people in the 19th century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation. Rockman brings together lines of American history that have for too long been told separately, as slavery and capitalism converge in something as deceptively ordinary as a humble pair of shoes.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. To get started finding Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

More Books

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) by Seth Rockman (2009-11-05)

Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) by Seth Rockman (2009-11-05)

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents by Seth Rockman (2014-05-23)

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents by Seth Rockman (2014-05-23)

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

by Rockman, Seth Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) (2008) Paperback

by Rockman, Seth Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) (2008) Paperback

[(Scraping by: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore)] [Author: Seth Rockman] published on (February, 2009)

[(Scraping by: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore)] [Author: Seth Rockman] published on (February, 2009)

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic by Rockman, Seth. (Bedford/St. Martin's,2002) [Paperback]

Welfare Reform in the Early Republic by Rockman, Seth. (Bedford/St. Martin's,2002) [Paperback]

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

Jacksonian America (American History Now)

Jacksonian America (American History Now)