Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920

by Jonathan E. Robins

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, demand for raw cotton in Europe, Asia, and America outstripped production as African Americans migrated away from Southern cotton fields. Consequently, industrialists in Europe turned to Africa for new sources of cotton.. This volume documents the efforts by British financiers and colonial officials, along with some African-American allies, to bring the American model of cotton production to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465676
• ISBN13: 9781580465670
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"