Scene on Radio "cotton Empire"

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Here is a radio show called Scene on Radio... It had a show called the Cotton Empire. If you listen our Cotton Empire was bigger than we think. Ninety plus percent of the cotton sold in Liverpool cotton exchange was from America. if you use oil of today American cotton industry would be Sandi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Nigeria, Iraq and so forth all combined. Another interesting fact pickers(slaves) productivity went up over time by 6 to 8 times... It implies violence makes one more productive... if you interested in that period of history...

 

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A lot of the radio show they are talking to Edward Baptist about Cotton... his book...


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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy.
 
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