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The Conquest of Labor: Daniel Pratt and Southern Industrialization

by Curtis J. Evans
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780807156810
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: LSU Press
  • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 370
  • Original Price: USD 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 540 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Business

The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of the Civil War had become the largest in the world. Pratt became a household name in cotton-growing states, and Prattville-the site of his operations-one of the antebellum South's most celebrated manufacturing towns.

Based on a rich cache of personal and business records, Curtis J. Evans's study of Daniel Pratt and his "Yankee" town in the heart of the Deep South challenges the conventional portrayal of the South as a premodern region hostile to industrialization and shows that, contrary to current popular thought, the South was not so markedly different from the North.

Curtis J. Evans is an independent scholar living in Northport, Alabama.

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