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Article: Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840.(Review)
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- June 22, 1999
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Dupre, Daniel S. Transforming the Cotton Frontier: Madison County, Alabama, 1800-1840 Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 269 pp., $40.00, ISBN 0-8071-2193-2 Publication Date: December 1997
The early years of the American republic were an era of ambivalence. Steeped in a tradition of small-producer values, the vast majority of white people faced the changes and opportunities brought about by the growth of national markets, the rise of capitalist social relations, and a growing availability of consumer goods by turning to their traditional values of equity, competency, and independence. In the process, more than a few Americans found themselves swept up ...