Chapter 12 · U.S. History

Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860

King Cotton and the domestic slave trade, the lives of enslaved people and free Black Americans, slave revolts, the planter class, honor and the defense of slavery, and filibusters in Latin America.

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