Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History!

The industrializing North and the agricultural South-that's how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early nineteenth century. But in doing so, we overlook the economic ties that held the nation together before the Civil War. We miss slavery's long reach into small New England communities, and we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Usingplantation goods-the shirts, ha...