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Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery U.S. State & Local History and the sometimes surprising challengesA Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye opening rethinking of nineteenth century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor. The industrializing North and the agricultural Souththats 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