The Cotton Kingdom’s Global Ambitions

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By Walter Johnson *95

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Harvard University Press) Johnson challenges the notion that the world of slavery was geographically and temporally constrained, arguing that the lower Mississippi Valley was focused on expanding its economic power and ties with Northern, English, and South American slave markets. Johnson aims to place the slaveholding South in a global context. Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and a professor of African American studies at Harvard University.

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