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Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the e

A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from

Since the earliest days of colonial America, the relationship between cotton and the African-American experience has been central to the history of the republic

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cott

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraord