CSPAN3 Lectures In History January 11, 2015
Making more money off the forced labor of africanamericans than they ever have before. I have seen statistics from economists that study this, and the amount of wealth from cotton exceeds every other investment in america. Tons of money has been made off the cotton empire. And we see how americans have gotten into the cotton empire with the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s, americas transition from tobaccobased agriculture to cotton agriculture. If there is one thing i want you guys to get out of this class, slavery is not just a southern history topic. It is an American History topic....