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Mar
17 - 18
2023
Scholars will discuss the historical and cultural significance of cotton in the twentieth-century South.
No single commodity had a greater effect on America’s history and culture than cotton. In the antebellum United States, King Cotton propelled an economic boom that led to the dispossession of southeastern Native Americans, the development of plantations across the South, and an explosion in the domestic slave trade that inevitably led to the Civil War. But what happened after the war?
This symposium brings together many of the nation’s most prominent scholars of the culture of cotton, who ... view more »